The Butterfly Garden Quotes

“I couldn’t remember when the abuse began, nor could I remember life without it. It seemed as if I was all of a sudden there, like going to sleep and being dropped right in the middle of a nightmare. You never analyze how you got there; you just try to make it through. That’s what I did every day; I just tried to survive.”
― Chip St. Clair, The Butterfly Garden: Surviving Childhood on the Run with One of America's Most Wanted

“Reality rarely changes; only does our perspective of it. The means to change our surroundings depends on our own ability to shift perspectives.”
― Chip St. Clair, The Butterfly Garden: Surviving Childhood on the Run with One of America's Most Wanted

“I often think of life as a great darkened room with a mammoth-sized tapestry fastened to a stone wall. I believe true peace can be achieved not in viewing the whole tapestry, but in accepting without bitterness those portions we have been afforded the luxury to see.”
― Chip St. Clair, The Butterfly Garden: Surviving Childhood on the Run with One of America's Most Wanted

“Of all this world's beauty and miracles, brilliance and simplicity-of all nature's graces-children are truly the most remarkable.”
― Chip St. Clair, The Butterfly Garden: Surviving Childhood on the Run with One of America's Most Wanted