The Promise of Tomorrow Quotes

“Letting go is hard . . . Traveling is magic, but magic runs out, if it’s not refreshed from time to time. I’ve never found the refresh button.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Promise of Tomorrow

“A woman is never so late that she can’t spruce up her appearance.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Promise of Tomorrow

“The trick with grief was to outrun it. Never stop moving because it was always trailing close behind. Stop and think too long, and it would eat you right up. So, each day I kept moving until I was exhausted.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Promise of Tomorrow

“Just decide that whatever you do is all yours. Don’t share anyone else’s dream.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Promise of Tomorrow

“A female stonemason. That certainly fits the girl I knew. She would not be afraid to chase an avocation dominated by men.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Promise of Tomorrow

“The big takeaway is that peace is a journey, not a destination, or so I was told. It’s like a butterfly that flits in and out of our lives. Some energies attract the butterfly, and others chase it away. The trick is to notice when those fluttering wings appear because the butterfly never lingers very long.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Promise of Tomorrow

“What I discovered was that grief could be tricky. It was mobile and could track me for thousands of miles. The faster I drove, the quicker my grief moved. Each time I thought I’d lost it around the last curve in the road, I found it in the passenger seat, weeping. No matter how many days or months I logged on the road, it kept pace.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Promise of Tomorrow

“Never stop moving because it was always trailing close behind. Stop and think too long, and it would eat you right up. So, each day I kept moving until I was exhausted.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Promise of Tomorrow

“People came and went, time marched on, and the earth kept turning. All my worldly problems that I’d mentally etched in stone felt like a spectacular waste of time.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Promise of Tomorrow

“The big takeaway is that peace is a journey, not a destination, or so I was told.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Promise of Tomorrow