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Little Tea Reader Highlighted Quotes
Thank you to reader Kay T. for using Kindle Notes and Highlights to highlight Little Tea 20 times and sharing on Goodreads!
1. In a world where people are trying to find themselves, Renny Thornton was born to this world knowing exactly who she is
2.Some people are so much a part of your day-to-day psyche that their physical absence means very little
3.Nostalgia has selective memory; it softens the heart and strips the details to leave you with what should have been instead of what was
4.But then the passage of time can blur a friendship's edges to the point where you feels its essence but forget the logistics
5.Combined, we were a girl complete. Separately, we were inchoate and in need of each other like solitary pieces of a clock that were useless until assembled, but once assembled, kept perfect time.
6.We both had a mother born and loyal to old Southern ways, which is to say the less you talked about something, the less real it became.
7. She had a knack for reaching into the potential of a moment and slamming it to solid ground
8. I've never known where any of it was going while I was in the middle of what seemed inconsequential; it was only in hindsight that I saw the snail's-paced build.
9. Happiness seemed to me to be little more than intermittent highlights that faded to memory like the light of a burned-out star.
10.There are some parts of your history your friends won't let you outrun
11. People always have to have something to look down on. From her scratching-poor mountain view, Black people are it.
12. I was just telling Celia not to let it bother her, Hayward said. Grandmother comes from a region where people don't know any better
13. It's not that I can't read the writing on the wall, it's that I don't notice the wall in the first place.
14. There is dignity in silence, and wisdom in holding one's tongue.
15.Because it takes me a while to process things. I find it hard to live in the moment.
16. I tend to register events in my own time
17 It has always brought an awareness of my own impermanence to be passing through something so eternal
18.The only was to move past a hindrance in life is to face it head-on.
19.Vulnerability comes from emotionally investing in another person.
20...an exalted joy the likes of which breaks the heart open and coaxes the soul out to play.
1. In a world where people are trying to find themselves, Renny Thornton was born to this world knowing exactly who she is
2.Some people are so much a part of your day-to-day psyche that their physical absence means very little
3.Nostalgia has selective memory; it softens the heart and strips the details to leave you with what should have been instead of what was
4.But then the passage of time can blur a friendship's edges to the point where you feels its essence but forget the logistics
5.Combined, we were a girl complete. Separately, we were inchoate and in need of each other like solitary pieces of a clock that were useless until assembled, but once assembled, kept perfect time.
6.We both had a mother born and loyal to old Southern ways, which is to say the less you talked about something, the less real it became.
7. She had a knack for reaching into the potential of a moment and slamming it to solid ground
8. I've never known where any of it was going while I was in the middle of what seemed inconsequential; it was only in hindsight that I saw the snail's-paced build.
9. Happiness seemed to me to be little more than intermittent highlights that faded to memory like the light of a burned-out star.
10.There are some parts of your history your friends won't let you outrun
11. People always have to have something to look down on. From her scratching-poor mountain view, Black people are it.
12. I was just telling Celia not to let it bother her, Hayward said. Grandmother comes from a region where people don't know any better
13. It's not that I can't read the writing on the wall, it's that I don't notice the wall in the first place.
14. There is dignity in silence, and wisdom in holding one's tongue.
15.Because it takes me a while to process things. I find it hard to live in the moment.
16. I tend to register events in my own time
17 It has always brought an awareness of my own impermanence to be passing through something so eternal
18.The only was to move past a hindrance in life is to face it head-on.
19.Vulnerability comes from emotionally investing in another person.
20...an exalted joy the likes of which breaks the heart open and coaxes the soul out to play.
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