A Watershed Year Quotes

“ignore all the aggravation that life throws your way, because none of it means anything in the end.”
― Susan Schoenberger, A Watershed Year

“There were times when Lucy felt almost transparent, insubstantial, as though her body would offer no resistance if the wind chose to lift her into the sky. At such times, she wished she had a small brick house to call her own, something earthbound and solid that could keep her from getting swept away like the seeds of a dandelion.”
― Susan Schoenberger, A Watershed Year

“Euripides better. He said, ‘The way of God is complex, He is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.”
― Susan Schoenberger, A Watershed Year

“The fifth, and final, way to prove the existence of God, Aquinas said, was the argument from intelligent design. It’s just common sense, according to Aquinas, to believe that the universe was created by an ‘intelligent designer’; in other words, God. The order of nature, the beauty of the stars, the clever way it all fits together had to be arranged by such a designer and not by chance. Just look around you, Aquinas was saying; examine the perfection of a tree or an insect or a child and tell me there isn’t a God.”
― Susan Schoenberger, A Watershed Year

“The way of God is complex, He is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.”
― Susan Schoenberger, A Watershed Year

“It’s a little-known fact, but stress is actually absorbed by fat cells. It gets diluted.”
― Susan Schoenberger, A Watershed Year

“All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.”
― Susan Schoenberger, A Watershed Year

“her”
― Susan Schoenberger, A Watershed Year

“there’s no point in fighting the battle when you don’t think you can win the war.”
― Susan Schoenberger, A Watershed Year

“On the outside, you’re such a gentle person, Lucy, almost too passive sometimes. But your core is made of titanium, or at least it is where I’m concerned.”
― Susan Schoenberger, A Watershed Year

“But she questioned the obligation of happiness. Was there some ratio out there, some secret happiness-to-misery index by which everyone else measured their life and decided whether or not it was worth living?”
― Susan Schoenberger, A Watershed Year

“students”
― Susan Schoenberger, A Watershed Year

“He had been the strong one, in accepting her help, in allowing her to see him as vulnerable. She had always been glad he hadn’t pushed her away”
― Susan Schoenberger, A Watershed Year