Heather Gudenkauf > Heather's Quotes

“Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
― Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, The Teaching of Buddha

“Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.”
― Willa Cather

“October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!”
― Rainbow Rowell , Attachments

“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”
― Jim Bishop

“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”
― Emily Bronte