The Good Dream Quotes

“I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him.”
― Donna VanLiere, The Good Dream

“Am I crazy Loretta?"
"A little," she says. I glance up at her. "Sometimes we're called on to do crazy things.”
― Donna VanLiere, The Good Dream

“There comes a time when you don't know what your capable of anymore. Looking back, you can remember what you were capable of then, how you thought, what you did, who you loved, who people said you were. Then something happens and takes all that away, the basket of good intentions you've been toting around, the trunk of dreams you've been pulling behind you, all of its gone in an instant, and its just you, naked, bare, exposed.”
― Donna VanLiere, The Good Dream

“It's far too easy to tote around a pocketbook of virtues when people are around but the truth always claws its way out in silence. This business of quiet and aloneness is working me through and through.”
― Donna VanLiere, The Good Dream

“When the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor I was angry. When our boys came home from Germany in body bags fury flew out of every corner of my body. But rage is different. It's like a fire, flaming out and licking at things in the way.”
― Donna VanLiere, The Good Dream

“The trees are filled with colored bottles to trap evil spirits, a superstition that is older than Tennessee itself.”
― Donna VanLiere, The Good Dream

“Little boys and girls should grow up amazed at how a fish breathes or how a flower opens up to the sun and then goes to bed at night or how the wind moves.”
― Donna VanLiere, The Good Dream

“He moans and it's the saddest, longest, and loneliest sound I've ever heard, the kind of sound that steals your breath.”
― Donna VanLiere, The Good Dream

“Over the years I've buried pain as easy as I've buried happiness.”
― Donna VanLiere, The Good Dream

“We are so different. How could it ever work? Why wouldn't it work? If we were just alike we'd be stale as day-old biscuits.”
― Donna VanLiere, The Good Dream

“I'm as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rockers.”
― Donna VanLiere, The Good Dream

“It's funny how we lay memories out like quilting squares, arranging them by color and feel, seeing which ones look best next to another and which ones we need to toss altogether.”
― Donna VanLiere, The Good Dream

“There's nothing truer than a face, and Jane's is as true as faces come.”
― Donna VanLiere, The Good Dream

“I gave up trying to talk to single men when, years earlier, I told Lloyd Parker I felt fine as frog hair. There's no way back from something that idiotic.”
― Donna VanLiere, The Good Dream

“All the imprints of life are here, but loneliness is as thick as mud inside these walls.”
― Donna VanLiere, The Good Dream