The Color of Rain Quotes

“It was her smile that took me captive the day we met, and never once let me go. There was an authentic quality to her smile that made people stop and look; a basic human truth that seemed to emanate from deep within her and naturally find its way upward and out. Like the magma flow from Vesuvius, there was simply no stopping Cathy's smile. It could freeze people where they stood and hold them there, sometimes forever.
That's what happened to me anyway.”
― Michael Spehn, The Color of Rain: How Two Families Found Faith, Hope, and Love in the Midst of Tragedy

“If only we had the ability to live life as though it were so new or so close to the end that all we could do is give and show and become love. It seems that beginnings and endings teach us about this kind of love. It is in between that we tend to forget.”
― Michael Spehn, The color of rain: how two families found faith, hope & love in the midst of tragedy

“He has asked me repeatedly to take him to the water’s edge, and I will walk my beloved there”
― Michael Spehn, The color of rain: how two families found faith, hope & love in the midst of tragedy