Kimberly Brock > Kimberly'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

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

“It's a funny thing, how much time we spend planning our lives. We so convince ourselves of what we want to do, that sometimes we don't see what we're meant to do.”
― Susan Gregg Gilmore, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen: A Novel

“I didn't really think Jesus cared what I wore to Cedar Grove Baptist Church, or to see the governor for that matter, considering the fact that in every picture I ever saw of the King of Kings, He was wearing sandals and bundled up in nothing more than a big, baggy robe.”
― Susan Gregg Gilmore, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen: A Novel

“Now I know my father was a certified man of God, but at a fairly young age, I decided that when it came to my destiny, he did not know what he was talking about.”
― Susan Gregg Gilmore, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen: A Novel

“It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad,
they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.”
― Kaye Gibbons, A Virtuous Woman

“Unless society came out past Flat Rock Crossroads, kept on past Booker T. High School, hung two rights, a left, turned in on Milk Farm Road and found Roland plowing a tobacco field, jerked him off the tractor, warped him and set him back up there without anybody riding by and noticing, blame can't be laid on society.”
― Kaye Gibbons, A Virtuous Woman

“In closing, I hope everything helps show that I wouldn’t be a fade-out or a person who turns to think to drink or dope when things get tough. I believe that anything is possible if you have the combination of love for what you’re doing and the will to sit down and not get up until it’s done….”
― Kaye Gibbons, The Life All Around Me By Ellen Foster

“The state of my nerves precludes any more active an existence”
― Lee Smith, Family Linen

“I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“...I've made it my business to observe fathers and daughters. And I've seen some incredible, beautiful things. Like the little girl who's not very cute - her teeth are funny, and her hair doesn't grow right, and she's got on thick glasses - but her father holds her hand and walks with her like she's a tiny angel that no one can touch. He gives her the best gift a woman can get in this world: protection. And the little girl learns to trust the man in her life. And all the things that the world expects from women - to be beautiful, to soothe the troubled spirit, heal the sick, care for the dying, send the greeting card, bake the cake - allof those things become the way we pay the father back for protecting us...”
― Adriana Trigiani, Big Stone Gap

“I even love the smell of books.”
― Adriana Trigiani

“That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you -- without you asking.”
― Adriana Trigiani, Very Valentine

“Besides you can't steal cake. Nobody owns cake. If you don't have sense to know cake's meant to be eaten up, you ought not be making one.”
― Kimberly Brock

“There was no doubt even for a child as young as I'd been, that she'd raised his ghost. I knew then, the only thing that really ever haunts a person is regret.”
― Kimberly Brock

“Before you knew it, a wonder could mix with the plain old earth beneath your feet until you could no longer tell the difference at all.”
― Kimberly Brock

“Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.”
― Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“The way I see it,” she said, “God is not like a person or even a thing, really. People go around making God into whatever they want or need. But when you get down to it, I believe what my Granny Byrne said. God is love and love is about changing, becoming something more.”
― Kimberly Brock, The River Witch

“When you leave a stone like this, even for a person you never knew, you’re asking God to add this name to His sling, so they’ll count. They’ll never be forgotten. And He will watch over this soul, always.”
― Kimberly Brock, The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare

“Fires set stories free on the world. That's what stories like best. And every one of us has a library we're carrying around right inside us.”
― Kimberly Brock, The Fabled Earth

“Women were held together by unseen connections that made the world believe they were walking wonders.”
― Kimberly Brock, The Fabled Earth

“...all stories were ghost stories, an exchange of spirit between the world and the human heart that rode on an inhale and an exhale.”
― Kimberly Brock, The Fabled Earth