Heather Webber > Quotes

“That a person you love is never truly gone—they’re always there, whether it’s in a memory … or a dream.” Or in a heart. All of you will always be in my heart, and part of me will always be in yours. That’s a damn good legacy, if you ask me.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“Love doesn’t know any better. Those kinds of feelings are rare. You need to hold on to love when you can. And if it lasts, it lasts. And if it doesn’t, you deal with it.”
― Heather Webber

“In the book of life, everyone has chapters they don't like reading out loud.
Page 118”
― Heather Webber, South of the Buttonwood Tree

“He was obviously on the wrong side of crazy.”
― Heather Webber, Trouble in Spades

“For where your roots are, your heart is.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“We survive on sweet tea and complaining, plain and simple. Mostly the sweet tea, if I’m tellin’ it to you straight.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“There’s no better escape from real life than into a book.”
― Heather Webber, South of the Buttonwood Tree

“For the first time, I saw a pink glow breaking through the gray wisps that surrounded her, revealing the color of her true personality. Blush pink. I smiled. I should've known. I had known. Emme was nothing but kindhearted at her core.”
― Heather Webber, In the Middle of Hickory Lane

“But sweetie, letting go is the only way you can fly.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“Grief can change a person to the point where they become someone they don’t know, or even like very much.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“Empty nest was such a sweet term for having your heart ripped out and relocated to another state.”
― Heather Webber, At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities

“It was a choice. I could either keep dwelling on what had happened, letting it define me, or take the valuable—and sometimes painful—lessons I’d learned from the relationship and move on. Maybe find someone eventually who loves me the same way I do them.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“Opening yourself up, being you, is the only way to get what you want most in the world.” Stand in your own light.”
― Heather Webber, South of the Buttonwood Tree

“Pain changed people. I couldn’t go back to the way I’d been, because I wasn’t the same person who’d left.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“That a person you love is never truly gone—they’re always there, whether it’s in a memory … or a dream.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“Hard times could be overcome, given time. Given heart. Given determination. Life could be rebuilt.”
― Heather Webber, At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities

“Life is too short, too fragile, too precious to hide in the shadows of what might have been. If continuously looking behind, you risk missing the possibilities that lie ahead.”
― Heather Webber, At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities

“You get to be my age, you start counting regrets at night instead of sheep.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“Tragedy, accidents especially, rarely come with reasons why. Yet, we look for them everywhere. We blame. We deny. We carry guilt, regrets. Sometimes, and this is hard to accept but you must, it is simply that person's time to go. We are all here on borrowed time.”
― Heather Webber, At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities

“Grief was a capricious companion. Sometimes distant and aloof. Sometimes so overwhelming it was hard to think a straight thought. Its mood changed at whim, making it emotionally exhausting to keep up.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“I tried to stand in my own light, truly I did, but it was easier said than done.”
― Heather Webber, South of the Buttonwood Tree

“Tak ada yang lebih buruk daripada iri pada sahabat, atau mengharapka sesuatu yang menurut perasaanmu seharusnya menjadi milikmu.”
― Heather Webber, Truly, Madly

“strong people stand up for themselves, but stronger people stand up for others.”
― Heather Webber, South of the Buttonwood Tree

“That a person you love is never truly gone—they’re always there, whether it’s in a memory … or a dream.” Or in a heart.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“Once upon a time, there was a family of Celtic women with healing hands and giving hearts, who knew the value of the earth and used its abundance to heal, to soothe, to comfort.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“I was talking about you, my little dandelion."
I faked shock. "A dandelion? Are you comparing me to a weed?"
"Ah-ah," she chastised. "Don't you know the saying about how some see a weed, while others see a wildflower? Dandelions are wildflowers, and they're the picture of survival, resilience, determination. Just like my Emme.”
― Heather Webber, In the Middle of Hickory Lane

“Aku juga menyukainya. Terlalu menyukainya sehingga tidak bisa kukatakan.”
― Heather Webber, Truly, Madly

“For me, the library had been my Narnia, a magical place that took me away to another land, where I learned more than I had ever hoped. Librarians instinctively took me under their wings, protecting me as much as they could from the evils inherent in my mother's way of life. Books had become my refuge, my only friends, family, my escape from my everyday reality.”
― Heather Webber, In the Middle of Hickory Lane

“Pain changed people. I couldn't go back to the way I'd been, because I wasn't the same person who'd left.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“Seems to me there’s a whole lot of people around here carrying around a heap of pain tied to the past. Might be time to start letting that go and start healing.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café