Top 35 Jennifer Chiaverini Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie.”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

2. “Who said you had to fill his shoes? Wear your own shoes. They’re bound to fit better. Walk your own path your own way and you’ll be more likely to get to where you need to be.”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

3. “Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value the work of her hands. And as any quilter will tell you, a quilter’s quilting friends are some of the dearest, most generous, and most supportive people she knows.”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

4. “Ignorant people, whispering cruel rumors, her mother whispered. Pay them no mind.”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

5. “Anna, falling in love with you was like coming home to a place I didn’t realize I’d been missing all my life. You’re the only person I’ve ever known who accepts me for who I am, right in this moment, faults and all, and isn’t waiting for me to become someone else.”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

6. “Two quilters who have just met will be strangers only until their mutual passion for quilting is revealed. Then they can talk for hours like the best of friends.”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

7. “On Christmas Day, the promise of peace offered a soft and shining light in dark times, an eternal flame that warfare could not douse, nor hatred extinguish.”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

8. “One can never had too many librarian friends.”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

9. “Hope is never false. One’s hopes may not be fulfilled, but that doesn’t not mean it was wrong to hope.”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

10. “There comes a time in every young woman’s life when she must learn to trust the evidence of her own senses, of her own experiences, if it does not confirm what she has heard from others.”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

11. “A quilt, like a family, doesn’t have to be perfect, but it does have to be inclusive.”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

12. “Sometimes the most ordinary things are the ones we learn to miss the most.”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

13. “Darling, you must never become accustomed to the extraordinary and the outrageous. If you do, little by little, you’ll learn to accept anything.”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

14. “Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman.”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

15. “People who assume my books are only about quilts obviously haven’t read them! I’ve always known that my books are about quilters – in other words, people – rather than quilts or quilting.”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

16. “She wanted a true partnership fueled by intellect and creativity, respect and desire.”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

17. “In my contemporary stories, I write about today’s quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set in the past let me have fun researching patterns that were popular and fabrics and tools available to quilters through history.”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

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18. “Marvelously entertaining, Gabrielle Donnellys The Little Women Letters evokes the spirit of Louisa May Alcotts Little Women with warmth and affection. I thoroughly enjoyed every word of this wonderful book.”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

19. “The world is never ready for any innovation,” he grumbled. “The vast majority of people stubbornly cling to the past until people possessing foresight and a sense of adventure break a trail and bring them into the future.”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

20. “Over the years, I’ve traveled to many places for inspiration and research, including Pennsylvania, Ohio, South Carolina, California, and Hawaii.”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

21. “Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens is an enthralling concoction of history and magic, an absorbing, richly detailed, and heart-wrenching reimagining of a timeless fairytale.”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

22. “Perhaps Germany will serve as a warning,” said Arvid. “May they learn from us to snuff out fascism in America when the first sparks arise and not delay until democracy goes up in flames all around them.” “This could never happen in America. A nation that elected Franklin Delano Roosevelt would never elect a madman populist.”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

23. “I wanted to write about women and their work, and about valuing the work we, as women, choose to do. Too many women I knew disparaged their work. Many working mothers thought they ought to be home with their children instead, so they carried around too much guilt to enjoy much job satisfaction.”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

24. “She would almost prefer to fold her arms and sink into an eternal slumber, so that the great longing of her soul for peaceful rest would at last be gratified.”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

25. “Mary Lincoln provided Elizabeth Keckley with opportunities for social and economic advancement she probably had never imagined during her years as a slave, while Elizabeth offered Mary the loyal, steadfast friendship she craved but had always found so elusive.”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

26. “The moment a gentleman perfects an invention and petitions the government for aid, he ceases to be an innocent citizen and becomes a culprit, a man to be shirked, browbeaten, and sneered at. I have never heard of any mechanician, inventor, or natural scientist who failed to find the government all but inaccessible, and whom the government did not discourage and treat badly.”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

27. “Intolerable wrongs we accept now as a matter of course would have provoked marches in the streets and calls for new elections only a few years ago.”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

28. “I’ve always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I’ve wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

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29. “When I was working on my first novel, ‘The Quilter’s Apprentice,’ I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women’s friendship and how women use friendship to sustain themselves and nurture each other.”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

30. “All people – white and colored, slave and free, Union and Confederate – shared a common humanity belied by their outward differences. In a time of discord, in a land torn by war, no truth was more important to remember than that.”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

31. “One of the great advantages that we may derive from machinery is the check that it affords against the inattention, the idleness, or the dishonesty of human agents.”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

32. “For as long as I can remember, I’ve always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

33. “May the New Year be as full of happiness and peace and friendship.”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

34. “We used to say he must’ve met you in the fiction section.”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

35. “What’s the point of having the personal cell phone number of the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff if you don’t call him every once in a while?”

— Jennifer Chiaverini