Cynthia Rylant > Quotes

“It is when we are most lost that we sometimes find our truest friends.”
― Cynthia Rylant, Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

“When the wicked want to bring down the innocent, they aim for a loving heart.”
― Cynthia Rylant, Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

“[May] understood people and she let them be whatever way they needed to be. She had faith in every single person she ever met, and this never failed her, for nobody ever disappointed May. Seems people knew she saw the very best of them, and they'd turn that side to her to give her a better look.”
― Cynthia Rylant, Missing May

“But those with an evil heart seem to have a talent for destroying anything beautiful which is about to bloom.”
― Cynthia Rylant, Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

“But what is it that makes a person want to stay here on this earth anyway, and go on suffering the most awful pain just for the sake of getting to stay? I used to think it was because people fear death. But now I think it is because people can't bear saying goodbye.”
― Cynthia Rylant, Missing May

“But I know now that you can't expect anything from anybody. If somebody loves you, it's because he wants to. And it's never because it's what he's supposed to do."

—Pete Cassidy”
― Cynthia Rylant, A Fine White Dust

“And, finally, I know, too. That throwing away this mess doesn't mean I'm giving something up. Or losing something I can't get back. It's just that there are too many pieces and too much dust. I'm just ready for something whole."

—Pete Cassidy”
― Cynthia Rylant, A Fine White Dust

“The war was just a mile or so away, and I wondered at my simply walking to it, as I might walk to the market or to school. Today I will walk to the war.”
― Cynthia Rylant, I Had Seen Castles

“May was the best person I ever knew.... She understood people and she let them be whatever way they needed to be. She had faith in every single person she ever met, and this never failed her, for nobody ever disappointed May. Seems people knew she saw the very best of them, and they'd turn that side to her to give her a better look.”
― Cynthia Rylant

“And I love being a writer because I want to leave something here on earth to make it better, prettier, stronger. I want to do something important in my life, and I think that adding beauty to the world with books like The Relatives Came or Waiting to Waltz or Henry and Mudge and the Forever Sea really is important. Every person is able to add beauty, whether by growing flowers, or singing, or cooking luscious meals, or raising sweet pets. Every part of life can be art. I am so grateful to be a writer. I hope every child grows up and finds something to do that will seem important and that will seem precious. Happy living and, especially, happy playing.”
― Cynthia Rylant

“But he finally saw
how pain caused
one of two things:
A reverence for life.
Or killing.
Both grew from the same seed.”
― Cynthia Rylant, God Went to Beauty School

“We wanted a family so bad, all of us. And we just grabbed each another and made us one. Simple as that.”
― Cynthia Rylant, Missing May

“One morning she happened upon a bit of cloth decorated with pictures of little red squirrels carrying small, brown,nutsacks,and she nearly fainted away.”
― Cynthia Rylant

“In November, at winter's gate, the stars are brittle. The sun is a sometime friend. And the world has tucked her children in, with a kiss on their heads, till spring.”
― Cynthia Rylant