A Piece of Heaven Quotes

“sometimes life is really hard. It just is. Things happen that make you want to die, but if you hang on, they do eventually get better.”
― Barbara Samuel, A Piece of Heaven

“Turkish law makes it legal for a woman to divorce her husband if he fails to provide her with her daily quota of coffee.”
― Barbara O'Neal, A Piece of Heaven

“No, she wasn’t an artist. But that didn’t mean she couldn’t play. There was something so sensual about it, about painting the plump, juicy rounds of a crimson drop of blood, something so transporting about losing herself in the curve of the brush against the surface. It was the only time she could stop thinking. She became the colors, the light, a prism through which something could be reflected, however poorly.”
― Barbara O'Neal, A Piece of Heaven

“AA Supplemental Materials—Just For Today Just for today I will try to live through this day only, and not tackle all my problems at once. I can do something for twelve hours that would appall me if I felt that I had to keep it up for a lifetime. Just for today I will be happy. This assumes what Abraham Lincoln said to be true, that “Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.” Just for today I will adjust myself to what is, and not try to adjust everything to my own desires, I will take my “luck” as it comes and fit myself to it.”
― Barbara O'Neal, A Piece of Heaven

“And what I thought, sitting there, was that sometimes life is really hard. It just is. Things happen that make you want to die, but if you hang on, they do eventually get better.”
― Barbara O'Neal, A Piece of Heaven

“For a long time, he didn’t say anything. “Luna, we’re both old enough to know that happily ever after is a fairy tale. Life is long and things happen.” He took her hand. “It is fast and we’ve fallen in love and that’s a good thing. The only promise I can give you is that I will always tell the truth. Always, okay?” She didn’t know what to say. He stood, touched her head. “You know where to find me.” She nodded. “Sometimes, Luna, a man needs to know how a woman feels.” He left.”
― Barbara O'Neal, A Piece of Heaven

“This is a good chance for you to figure out where you really stand in your feelings about her.” “Maybe I’m more interested in where I stand with you.” “I think this has moved too fast,” Luna said honestly. “I’ve told you—I don’t know if I can really make a commitment. I just don’t know.” His long dark eyes showed disappointment. Sharp disappointment, actually, which she avoided by ducking her head. “I’m sorry,”
― Barbara O'Neal, A Piece of Heaven

“Lots of great parents had made mistakes.”
― Barbara O'Neal, A Piece of Heaven

“There were things a person didn’t get over. No amount of therapy, journals, art, or rituals could take away the pain of some wounds. Period. Some of them lived on forever in big messy scars that were so tender they could bleed without much provocation at all.”
― Barbara O'Neal, A Piece of Heaven

“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
― Barbara O'Neal, A Piece of Heaven

“life.”
― Barbara O'Neal, A Piece of Heaven

“1453: Coffee is introduced to Constantinople by Ottoman Turks. The world's first coffee shop, Kiva Han, opens there in 1475. Turkish law makes it legal for a woman to divorce her husband if he fails to provide her with her daily quota of coffee.”
― Barbara Samuel, A Piece of Heaven

“Those two had a lot of shocks ahead. Everybody did—that was the bitch of it, wasn't it? Nothing ever stayed smooth and beautiful and good, not skin, not faces, not the road of life. What mattered was the way you lived with what happened to you.”
― Barbara Samuel, A Piece of Heaven

“I don't get why it's no big deal in the movies. Like everyone just says, “Oh, he fell in love with somebody else,” like it's normal to break up families and leave the kids all sad and the moms without anybody in their corner after they worked hard to make a good life.”
― Barbara Samuel, A Piece of Heaven

“The real miracle is that I didn't kill anybody else.” “Or go to jail for a long time.” “Yeah. Lucky, I guess.” “Or white.” He smiled. “That, too.”
― Barbara Samuel, A Piece of Heaven

“Again, she wanted to photograph Thomas, or rather the scene itself—the quality of yellow against the wall behind his head, the smeary look of the water on the window, his strong brown hands clasped around that plain cup. The sight of his knuckles felt both too comfortable and too enclosing, and with a sense of rising panic, she looked at the rain and wondered how long it would last. How long could two strangers just make small talk”
― Barbara Samuel, A Piece of Heaven

“Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust. —PIERS PAUL READ”
― Barbara Samuel, A Piece of Heaven