When Light Breaks Quotes

“People say it all the time--'follow your heart.' What are we supposed to do--take our heart out and walk around behind it--follow it down the sidewalk to the mall? Your feet will lead you to your heart. Ha!
"Maybe it just means you should know your heart, because if you know it, you might do what it says to do. I don't think it means you do whatever you damn well please. I don't think the heart speaks very loudly either--just tosses you hints and whispers.”
― 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

“I hope you never understand what it is to know that all you believed is wrong--sorely wrong.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, When Light Breaks

“Be careful what you believe - it is who you are.”
― 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

“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

“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

“Those are the facts. It's easy to believe in facts, my dear. To believe in the story you need faith. Tell me the story as you experienced it.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, When Light Breaks

“You think it is so different because you live here in this time, in this place, because I'm from the far side of the sea. But we are attached by the water between us. It is the same tide and moon, the same sea, love, fear, losing, and death. Love does not change with time. The love that fills us and empties us, that clips our wings so that
we must decide whether to learn to fly after that. To love or to fear.”
― 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

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

“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