Lauren Michelle Brock > Lauren's Quotes

“This is now and forever - the moment everyone must have, the moment that encompasses all other moments; now and before, now and after: all time.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, When Light Breaks

“Souls bound together can't be forever torn apart by distance and neither by death.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, When Light Breaks

“Be careful what you believe - it is who you are.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, When Light Breaks

“Edges of the ocean. The water is what ties us together, yes? You at one edge, me at the other, but the same ocean, the same water.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, When Light Breaks

“It is not about how it ends; it is about the journey. The full story. You have to know the full story to care about or know the ending.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, When Light Breaks

“What fills the eye fills the heart.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, When Light Breaks

“This is the thing we must guard against: that others' expectations, especially our families', do not become our own.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, When Light Breaks

“...memory is a cloudy, disjointed thing - like disconnected dreams with images scattered and thrown to settle where they please.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, When Light Breaks

“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“...hidden truths morph in the dark soil of deceit into something much worse.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, Between The Tides

“The right thing at the wrong time is never the right thing.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, Between The Tides

“But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

(Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven)”
― W.B. Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds

“If only it were so easy to pick up the broken pieces of life, glue them back together, and cover them with paint like nothing had ever happened.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, Between The Tides

“The lowest ebb brings the highest tide.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, Between The Tides

“We have to know the truth about our past to discover our future.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, Between The Tides

“Let the story settle inside you. Let it move and twist around until you see what it has to say to you.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, Between The Tides

“Things aren't obvious unless we see them.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, Between The Tides

“Stories are always braided together - one affecting the other.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, Between The Tides

“We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensees

“Nature and books belong to all who see them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I was never without a book, just in case there were empty moments to slip into a life that wasn't mine.”
― Patti Callahan Henry

“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, What Happened to Lani Garver: A Young Adult Mystery Novel About Shattered Friendship and Angels

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn’t imagine it, and then it happened and you couldn’t really imagine it hadn’t.”
― Ann Brashares, The Last Summer of You and Me

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

“If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the deepest depths as well as the highest heights. It is when things go wrong, when good things do not happen, when our prayers seem to have been lost, that God is most present. We do not need the sheltering wings when things go smoothly. We are closest to God in the darkness, stumbling along blindly.”
― Madeleine L'Engle