Quotes by Rachel Field

• Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
• There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
• I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.
• I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
• One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.