Morning Is a Long Time Coming Quotes

“It was like that. Sometimes I'd go for a period—days or weeks—without feeling the full sweep of my loss, and then as unexpected as a thunderclap, the realization would rip the protective coating from my senses. Maybe that's the way it is with trick knees and aging griefs. Totally pain free one moment and absorbingly painful the next.”
― Bette Greene, Morning Is a Long Time Coming

“And taking care of somebody else made me feel good. Like discovering you're more than you thought you were. More even than you hoped to be. ”
― Bette Greene, Morning Is a Long Time Coming

“Why is it I'm always so quick to believe that people are thinking...believing the worst about me?”
― Bette Greene, Morning Is a Long Time Coming

“All I know is that growing up hurts too much. Growing down is what I'd really like to do. Be little enough again so it would be perfectly natural to be protected from the wind and the rain—and the world.”
― Bette Greene, Morning Is a Long Time Coming

“But don't go thinking that I'm critical of you, Anton, because really I'm not. Not a bit! It's just that you're not here. I'm alone and I'm frightened and you're not here. And you're not ever going to be here for me.”
― Bette Greene, Morning Is a Long Time Coming

“That's when I saw—cleary saw—that there was more than one mountain in my life. Some could be seen and some couldn't be, but just the same, they were all out there. All out there waiting for me.”
― Bette Greene, Morning Is a Long Time Coming

“Longevity can't be the only test of love.”
― Bette Greene, Morning Is a Long Time Coming

“But will somebody please tell me what's a person to do when they're too afraid of life to live and too afraid of death to die?”
― Bette Greene, Morning Is a Long Time Coming

“Six years is plenty long enough to soothe the tearing anguish of...death, but maybe no amount of time is enough to soothe something that is no longer there. Something like an emptiness that can never be filled because it's only a bit of space carved out of air.”
― Bette Greene, Morning Is a Long Time Coming

“Maybe...in a way, this coffee reminds me of something. Maybe...maybe only a philosopher or a mad man would make this connection, but it's a little like life. I mean it's powerful going down and that doesn't even take into account the aftertaste, which really takes getting used to.”
― Bette Greene, Morning Is a Long Time Coming