Top 90 Jean M. Auel Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Your wolf doesn’t need to hate what he kills. It would be easier if we could kill without compunction, like your wolf does, but then, we wouldn’t be human.”

— Jean M. Auel

52. “Impetuously, with the uninhibited reactions of a child, she reached out to touch his face, to see if the scar felt different.”

— Jean M. Auel

53. “The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.”

— Jean M. Auel

54. “I’d done so many things I wasn’t supposed to do that by then I was ready to try any idea that came to me.”

— Jean M. Auel

55. “There was a time when the young of many clans joined together to make new clans.”

— Jean M. Auel

56. “Even smoke had beneficial properties; the smell alone evoked a feeling of safety and home.”

— Jean M. Auel

57. “How had the strange child charmed her way into his heart so quickly?”

— Jean M. Auel

58. “When all was over, they buried the dead ancestor under piles of dirt, grass, leaves, or snow. Mammoths were even known to bury other dead animals, including humans.”

— Jean M. Auel

59. “I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.”

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60. “His people believed that the Mother had first created a spirit world, and the spirits of all things in it were perfect. The spirits then produced living copies of themselves, to populate the ordinary world. The spirit was the model, the pattern from which all things were derived, but no copy could be as perfect as the original; not even the spirits themselves could make perfect copies, that was why each was different.”

— Jean M. Auel

61. “From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.”

— Jean M. Auel

62. “I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.”

— Jean M. Auel

63. “My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material.”

— Jean M. Auel

64. “Like men, some grow best in company, striving to outdo the rest. Others need to grow their own way, though it may be lonely. Both have value.”

— Jean M. Auel

65. “Once I got over feeling sick in the morning, I’ve been feeling good,” Levela said. “Vigorous and strong. Although, lately, I get tired easily. I want to sleep late and take naps in the day, and sometimes if I stand for a long time, my back hurts.” “Sounds about right, wouldn’t you say,” Velima said, smiling at her daughter. “Just the way you are supposed to feel.”

— Jean M. Auel

66. “Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.”

— Jean M. Auel

67. “I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it’s the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.”

— Jean M. Auel

68. “He was an abomination precisely because they saw his humanity, but degraded it and would not recognize it.”

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69. “Jondalar, you give me nothing but joy, nothing but pleasure. I love it when you want me, any time, any place. If you want me, there is no time I am not ready for you. I always want you. I love you.”

— Jean M. Auel

70. “No, my publisher has always done the marketing.”

— Jean M. Auel

71. “She didn’t think anything could ever spoil her happiness as she filled her gathering basket with nuts.”

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72. “I think of my books as mainstream and that’s were most people who read them look for them in book stores.”

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73. “But the old cripple never knew the joy of cradling a child in his own arms.”

— Jean M. Auel

74. “Hearth to change. He had been watching from the Lion.”

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75. “Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.”

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76. “La mano y la vista hacen al artista.”

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77. “Children are always a joy, but pain, too. And they all must lead their own lives. Even Mut will let Her children go their own way, someday, but I fear for us if we ever neglect Her. If we forget to respect our Great Earth Mother, She will withhold Her blessings, and no longer provide for us.”

— Jean M. Auel

78. “I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I’m not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.”

— Jean M. Auel

79. “When such single minded strength of will and purpose is directed to reach its goal, no boundary can resist.”

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80. “But as more memories built up, crowding and enlarging the storage capacity of their brain, changes came harder. There was no more room for new ideas that would be added to their memory bank, their heads were already too large. Women had difficulty giving birth; they couldn’t afford new knowledge that would enlarge their heads even more.”

— Jean M. Auel

81. “Suddenly, just as the rain began to fall in earnest, he sat down and howled.”

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82. “Sorry. That is courtesy, right? Custom? Jondalar, what good are words like sorry? It doesn’t change anything, it doesn’t make me feel any better.” He pulled his hand through his hair. She was right. Whatever he had done – and he thought he knew what it was – being sorry didn’t help.”

— Jean M. Auel

83. “That is truly the loss of innocence, Ayla, when we understand what we must do in order to live. That.”

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84. “The ones that counted were the ones that cared.”

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85. “No, Nezzie. No medicine can make him well,’ she replied in a firm voice that was tinged with sorrow.”

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86. “The men compete in what they do; the women in what they make,’ she said, then smiled, ’including babies, though that is a very subtle competition, and nearly everyone thinks she is the winner.”

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87. “The test is not just something hard to do, the test is knowing you can do it.”

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88. “She realized how much she had missed the company of friendly people who behaved in a normal way.”

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89. “Ayla had grown accustomed to quiet and solitude over the past years. The mere presence of another person, while relished, required some adjustment and accommodation, but the emotional upheavals of the day had left her drained and exhausted. She did not want to feel, or think about, or react to, the man who shared her cave. She only wanted to rest.”

— Jean M. Auel

90. “When you don’t know if there is anyone in the world like you, you seek contact with something living however you can.”

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91. “But even with that tremendous reservoir of information at her disposal, she had recently seen some vegetation that was completely unfamiliar, as unfamiliar as the countryside. She would have liked to.”

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92. “Can only women have babies?” she asked, warming to her subject. “Yes,” he nodded.”

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93. “Hablan con sombras en la lengua.”

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94. “A frown creased Ayla’s forehead. She remembered he had used that word to describe her when she used her sling, and she wasn’t sure if she understood the word the way he used it. “Are you artist?” she asked. He made a wry grimace. Her question had touched at the heart of an issue about which he had strong feelings.”

— Jean M. Auel

95. “You must learn to understand with your heart and mind, not your eyes and ears, then you will know.”

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96. “The sparks he made with just flint were not usually long-lived enough to make fire, anyway.”

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97. “Then, slowly, it filled her. An urge, like none she had ever known, rose out of her depths, grew in her throat, and burst from her mouth in a primal scream of victory. She did it! At that moment, in a lonely valley in the middle of a vast continent, somewhere near the undefined boundary of the desolate northern loess steppes and the wetter continental steppes to the south, a young woman stood with a bone club in her hand – and felt powerful. She could survive. She would survive.”

— Jean M. Auel