That Last Carolina Summer Quotes

“everything is a cycle. The ebb and flow of the tides, the seamless turn of the seasons, the migration of birds. The relationship between a parent and a child and the inevitability of growing older. The intractable connection to our siblings.”
― Karen White, That Last Carolina Summer

“Maybe this was the destiny of all adult children, to mourn for the end of our childhoods when faced with the fragilities of our aging parents.”
― Karen White, That Last Carolina Summer

“feeding anger only robs me of peace.”
― Karen White, That Last Carolina Summer

“That’s the thing with lying to yourself. It’s a temporary bandage that becomes harder to remove the longer you wait, until you reach the point where you’d rather live with a lie than face the inevitable.”
― Karen White, That Last Carolina Summer

“We all experience storms in our lives, despite our best efforts to take a detour. Landfall can sometimes find us in a new and unexpected place, and sometimes to our surprise it’s the place we were always meant to be.” Excerpt from the blog The Thing with Feathers”
― Karen White, That Last Carolina Summer

“It was beginning to feel as if my past had swallowed my present and nothing had changed at all.”
― Karen White, That Last Carolina Summer

“other events are charred around the edges, obscuring my view when I peer through the lens of hindsight and with the longing for a life that was never meant to be mine.”
― Karen White, That Last Carolina Summer