A Place for Peter Quotes

“We never know how strong a beam a candle has until we try it in the dark.”
― Elizabeth Yates, A Place for Peter

“Did you ever think...that a seed can't start reaching up to the sun until something in it has gone down first into the earth?...I'm not sure that a man can go far if he hasn't first learned to bow before something bigger than he is.”
― Elizabeth Yates, A Place for Peter

“Sometimes there aren't any buts...If we accept what is our life, we grow through it and because of it. That's the way we grow up.”
― Elizabeth Yates, A Place for Peter

“(T)he only way we can prove ourselves worthy of a big trust is by doing well the tasks that belong to each day.”
― Elizabeth Yates, A Place for Peter

“Never is a long time...and none of us lives to see its length.”
― Elizabeth Yates, A Place for Peter