The Flower Sisters Quotes

“Sometimes I think spring lasts about fifteen minutes around here and then we're all sitting on Hell's front porch.”
― Michelle Collins Anderson, The Flower Sisters

“You can’t change where and who you’ve come from, only where you will go and who you will be. But that place and those people always call your name,”
― Michelle Collins Anderson, The Flower Sisters

“It is good to test and try on different ideas of what it means to be godly, a good person. To push back against what you are taught and preached until you find what is true. And follow it—relentlessly, exhaustively—holding it up constantly against the changing light and asking hard questions. Doubt is just the dark, necessary side of understanding. Of reconciliation. Of peace.”
― Michelle Collins Anderson, The Flower Sisters

“They taught me in different ways that the key to good storytelling is understanding that it is more about people and their responses to life than any particular event. “Just the facts” isn’t enough.”
― Michelle Collins Anderson, The Flower Sisters

“I’ve read a lot about it, and the experts say that identical twins often know what the other is thinking or feeling or about to do without being told.”
― Michelle Collins Anderson, The Flower Sisters

“nasturtiums”
― Michelle Collins Anderson, The Flower Sisters

“Because home is a feeling, and the people and place that inspire that feeling.”
― Michelle Collins Anderson, The Flower Sisters

“My father could not believe that he was the inspiration for that happiness, that light.”
― Michelle Collins Anderson, The Flower Sisters