Where Butterflies Wander Quotes

“It seems to me, wherever we go, the dents and scratches are going to go with us and that it's going to take more than a new house in a new town in order to set things right.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Where Butterflies Wander

“Just ’cause someone’s gone doesn’t mean they’re not still a part of us.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Where Butterflies Wander

“Marie, happiness shouldn’t need to be chased. It’s with you all the time, wherever you choose to look.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Where Butterflies Wander

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. Lao Tzu”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Where Butterflies Wander

“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. —Jackie Robinson”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Where Butterflies Wander

“Beauty comes in all shapes, sizes, and forms, and if he doesn’t desire you as you are, he doesn’t truly see you, and you deserve to be seen. We all do.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Where Butterflies Wander

“we do not choose how long we get to travel this earth.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Where Butterflies Wander

“But no matter how much you wish it”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Where Butterflies Wander

“Because what is life if not a collection of cherished memories?”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Where Butterflies Wander

“Now’s what we’ve got, and none of us knows about tomorrow.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Where Butterflies Wander

“She lifts her bottle in a mock toast. “True. But some battles are so worthy, it’s glorious even to fail.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Where Butterflies Wander

“nothing not of flesh and bone ever satisfies the soul but briefly and superficially.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Where Butterflies Wander

“China causes a pinprick hole in the seam of an arm floatie. A little girl drowns in a pool in Connecticut. A family is destroyed. A New Hampshire woman’s world is decimated. All for a speck of dirt on the other side of the world. “Time”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Where Butterflies Wander

“But when relief flood his face, something cracked open inside me, the thing that happens when you love someone, and they are affected, and you can't help but be affected too.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Where Butterflies Wander

“You stop thinking, and you’re just there, in the moment, going and going and going, like nothing else exists but your breath and your body and the desire to keep moving.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Where Butterflies Wander

“The day it happened I was entirely unaware. The morning started like any other day.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Where Butterflies Wander

“happiness shouldn’t need to be chased. It’s with you all the time, wherever you choose to look.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Where Butterflies Wander

“Marie, only when you lose the desire for the things that don’t matter do you start to have fun. He said it with a wink, then”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Where Butterflies Wander

“Perhaps all of us are not who we seem, each of us altering the narrative to portray nobler versions that make us appear better than we are.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Where Butterflies Wander

“But some battles are so worthy, it’s glorious even to fail.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Where Butterflies Wander

“Each year, tens of thousands of letters are sent to and left at Juliet’s tomb in Verona, each seeking counsel on questions of the heart. And amazingly, each letter is answered by a legion of volunteers called the Juliet Club.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Where Butterflies Wander

“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. —Jackie Robinson Prologue March 25, 2002 Dearest Davina, I just received the news from Dr. Holmberg that the final grafts were a success and soon you will be well enough to come home. I have a jar of calendula ready, and the colonel will”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Where Butterflies Wander

“anger is a wasted emotion, more detrimental to the bearer than the target.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Where Butterflies Wander

“It’s the good deeds that make you who you are and paint the future in ways you never imagined.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Where Butterflies Wander

“I lost sight of that simple, eternal truth—deluded myself into believing a house would bring relief, when, if there’s one thing I should know, it’s that nothing not of flesh and bone ever satisfies the soul but briefly and superficially”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Where Butterflies Wander

“only when you lose the desire for the things that don’t matter do you start to have fun.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Where Butterflies Wander

“Think on a problem long enough, and you might not find the answer, but at least you’ll know the question.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Where Butterflies Wander

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. Lao Tzu is one of my favorite philosophers, and lately, I’ve found myself leaning heavily on his wisdom.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Where Butterflies Wander

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Where Butterflies Wander

“Television rots the mind and turns a brain to cheese until a person cannot think but only see.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Where Butterflies Wander