Sarah McCoy > Sarah's Quotes

“Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue”
― Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“Nouns and verbs hold the power but syntax casts the spell.”
― Janet Peery

“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Laughter is carbonated holiness.”
― Anne Lamott

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
― C.S. Lewis

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
― Maya Angelou

“People often miss things that don't exist--miss things that were but are not anymore.”
― Sarah McCoy, The Baker's Daughter

“The marks on our lives are like music notes on the page--they sing a song.”
― Sarah McCoy, The Baker's Daughter

“We all tell little lies about ourselves, Our past, our presents. We think some of them are minuscule, unimportant, And others, large and incriminating. But they are the same. Only God Has enough of the story to judge our souls.”
― Sarah McCoy, The Baker's Daughter

“We can't force life to do what we want when we want it. We can't change yesterday or control tomorrow. We can only live today as best we can. And it just might turn out better than expected”
― Sarah McCoy, The Mapmaker's Children

“So unabashed as to make its recipient afraid—not of the girl but of a world that didn’t abide such forthright joy.”
― Sarah McCoy, The Mapmaker's Children

“Though their goals had been righteous, their means of anarchy would not go unpunished.”
― Sarah McCoy, The Mapmaker's Children

“Better she left him before he left her for someone young with a belly full of immortal possibilities.”
― Sarah McCoy, The Mapmaker's Children

“Her father had proven to them all: when a beating heart stopped, there was no black or white, only blood-red.”
― Sarah McCoy, The Mapmaker's Children