Safe Harbor Quotes

“That some things we’re not supposed to know. We have to look as hard as we can, then know when it’s time to give up. That’s the time we have to lay the whole thing to rest.”
― Luanne Rice, Safe Harbor

“No matter what mysteries we’re facing, we still have to live our lives.”
― Luanne Rice, Safe Harbor

“Souls don’t have ages,”
― Luanne Rice, Safe Harbor

“She put others first, and she never felt the need to shine.” “But she did shine,” Sam said. “People loved her.” “That was her secret,” Dana said, picturing her sister’s smile. “She shined from within.”
― Luanne Rice, Safe Harbor

“old age homes could look bright but feel gloomy—a place where old people went to die. And that the Sun Center was the opposite—a place where old people go to live.”
― Luanne Rice, Safe Harbor

“Someday’s better. It’s always in the future, and it’s always possible.”
― Luanne Rice, Safe Harbor

“How couldn’t he understand what happened, how death could make one person take to bed and another person sit on a rock”
― Luanne Rice, Safe Harbor

“She couldn’t make someone—Jonathan—understand what she was going through if he wasn’t ready to understand.”
― Luanne Rice, Safe Harbor

“Dana had found herself living in a life that didn’t work. What was she doing, yelling back and forth about her sister’s death? She was learning all about walls and armor, all the defenses a person put up when fear and loss crowded in. The bedsheets were her castle walls; nothing could get in and hurt her while she lay there, warm and hidden, away from the world. She learned other things too. She couldn’t make someone—Jonathan—understand what she was going through if he wasn’t ready to understand.”
― Luanne Rice, Safe Harbor

“I’ve learned the hard way,” she said, holding Jonathan’s letter, “that people aren’t always what they seem to be at first.” “But sometimes they are,” Sam said.”
― Luanne Rice, Safe Harbor

“think a lot of artists do. We don’t quite fit in, and somehow that feeds our creativity. We have to create other worlds to feel right.”
― Luanne Rice, Safe Harbor

“For Sam, growing up as worried about food and rent as his mother was, angry that everyone else had more than him, childhood hadn’t been easy. His school pictures were hard to look at—he could see the worry and pain in his face, the tension in his posture. It took a hard-luck kid to know”
― Luanne Rice, Safe Harbor

“Some adults would never understand what childhood could be. The ones who had grown up happy and loved, who had never seen their parents hurt, who had most of what they needed: Those adults couldn’t know.”
― Luanne Rice, Safe Harbor

“Mommy and Daddy,” Quinn gasped. “Grandma will kill you when she finds out you took it,” Allie said. “We weren’t ready,” Quinn said as if hypnotized. “We weren’t ready to scatter their ashes. How could I just leave them there?”
― Luanne Rice, Safe Harbor

“EVERYONE THOUGHT QUINN was watching Meet the Press with Grandma, even Grandma. Lying on the sofa, covered with an afghan, Quinn had simply rolled off and stuffed pillows under the covers while Grandma stared at the screen. Then she had sidled upstairs, out her bedroom window, and down the oak tree growing right by the house.”
― Luanne Rice, Safe Harbor