The Long Way Home Quotes

“Death was painful, not because people couldn't see their loved ones anymore, but because they couldn't communicate with them anymore.”
― Karen McQuestion, The Long Way Home

“Do the thing you long to do and become the person you’re destined to be.”
― Karen McQuestion, The Long Way Home

“I have faith that when the time is right I’ll find what I’m really meant to do with my life, and it will all come together for me. For now, this is good.”
― Karen McQuestion, The Long Way Home

“someone offers you something out of the kindness of their heart, and you need that something, you really have to take it.”
― Karen McQuestion, The Long Way Home

“Every day, he tried to do at least one nice thing for someone else, a habit he’d started in college. He felt that if everyone did it, the world would be a better place and that he was obligated to lead by example.”
― Karen McQuestion, The Long Way Home

“Life sure went by quick when you weren’t paying attention. It took forever to go from a child to a grown-up. The middle-aged years went by at a steady clip, and everything else after that just sort of whizzed by.”
― Karen McQuestion, The Long Way Home

“Everyone had something—some fear, some shortcoming, some problem. And some people had multiples in each area. The problems were what made people human beings—they fostered compassion and encouraged growth. What would be the point if everyone was perfect?”
― Karen McQuestion, The Long Way Home

“keep torturing yourself? It is what it is.”
― Karen McQuestion, The Long Way Home

“The truth of it was, Jazzy mused, that if you had at least one person who believed in you, you could tolerate almost anything.”
― Karen McQuestion, The Long Way Home

“Life sure went by quick when you weren’t paying attention. It took forever to go from a child to a grown-up. The middle-aged years went by at a steady clip, and everything else after that just sort of whizzed”
― Karen McQuestion, The Long Way Home

“Their grandmother went through the same thing—voices would come into her head like she was getting a phone call from the universe, and she’d drop everything to do whatever was needed. “They’re guiding you, Jazzy,” Grandma had said over and over again. “These voices, you get them for a reason.” She also said every person on the planet had the potential to get them, but few did.”
― Karen McQuestion, The Long Way Home

“When you pared away the stuff of life—the obligations, the irritations, the illnesses, and pain—this connection, this love, was all that really mattered.”
― Karen McQuestion, The Long Way Home

“getting”
― Karen McQuestion, The Long Way Home

“the good part,”
― Karen McQuestion, The Long Way Home

“into her embrace and clung to her. “There,”
― Karen McQuestion, The Long Way Home

“So long the days, so short the years.”
― Karen McQuestion, The Long Way Home