Amy Krouse Rosenthal Quotes

Amy Krouse Rosenthal was an American author of both adult and children's books, a short film maker, and radio show host. She is best known for her memoir Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, her children's picture books, and the film project The Beckoning of Lovely. She was a prolific writer, publishing more than 30 children's books between 2005 and her death in 2017. She is the only author to have three children's books make the Best Children's Books for Family Literacy list in the same year. She was a contributor to Chicago's NPR affiliate WBEZ, and to the TED conference. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. April 1965 – 13. March 2017
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Famous Amy Krouse Rosenthal Quotes

“cozy+smell of pancakes-alarm clock=weekend”

Source: This Plus That: Life's Little Equations

“I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.”

Source: Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life

“I tend to believe whatever you decide to look for you will find, whatever you beckon will eventually beckon you.”

As quoted in [Roberts, Sam, Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Children’s Author and Filmmaker, Dies at 51, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/style/amy-krouse-rosenthal-dies-modern-love.html, 22 November 2019, The New York Times, March 13, 2017]

“I want more time with Jason. I want more time with my children. I want more time sipping martinis at the Green Mill Jazz Club on Thursday nights. But that is not going to happen. I probably have only a few days left being a person on this planet.”

From her essay [Amy Krouse Rosenthal, You May Want to Marry My Husband, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/style/modern-love-you-may-want-to-marry-my-husband.html, 22 November 2019, The New York Times, March 3, 2017], published 10 days before her death, as quoted in [Stevens, Heidi, Chicago author Amy Krouse Rosenthal's 'You May Want to Marry My Husband' essay went viral. Now her husband is honoring her life with a giant yellow umbrella in Lincoln Park., https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/heidi-stevens/ct-life-stevens-monday-amy-krause-rosenthal-lincoln-park-0513-story.html, 22 November 2019, The Chicago Times]

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