Before Dorothy Quotes

“We wouldn’t have had the wonderful if we’d never had the wicked. It’s all part of the same story, Henry. All connected.”
― Hazel Gaynor, Before Dorothy

“Be careful what you wish for. There’s worry and fear in freedom, too. The restless quest for happiness isn’t always an enjoyable road to follow. Just around the next corner, a bit further, tomorrow, next year. Always the lure of something else, something better, something more. What if? Where next? It’s a trap all of its own.”
― Hazel Gaynor, Before Dorothy

“And they say hope makes fools of desperate men…”
― Hazel Gaynor, Before Dorothy

“When you have next to nothing, you look back often. We clutched at the straws of our productive past and prayed that the present would reward our patience and resilience.”
― Hazel Gaynor, Before Dorothy

“We will become a fable, a fading legend of dreams turned to dust.”
― Hazel Gaynor, Before Dorothy

“There was something so freeing about being untethered from life in every sense.”
― Hazel Gaynor, Before Dorothy

“We always have a choice, Emily. It’s what we do with it that matters.”
― Hazel Gaynor, Before Dorothy

“I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. —L. Frank Baum,
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”
― Hazel Gaynor, Before Dorothy

“True love is a precious thing. It should be treasured, protected whatever the cost.”
― Hazel Gaynor, Before Dorothy

“You’re right. We must all follow our hearts, even when it scares us, because the most frightening thing of all is to not do the thing we are meant to.”
― Hazel Gaynor, Before Dorothy

“I’m quite sure that if you tapped his chest there would be an echo where his heart should be.”
― Hazel Gaynor, Before Dorothy

“The prairie taught me that life never goes as planned. It is the hardest lesson of all, to accept that we are nothing but tumbleweed, blown by the whims of fortune and destiny. We try to set our course and follow our path, struggle and fight to cling to the life we’ve imagined with every ounce of our being, but I now know that the bravest thing to do is to let go, give up the life we wanted to make room for the life we need. There is a peacefulness then, a comfort in knowing you will always be on the right path, following the road you were meant to take, even if it leads you in a new and frightening direction…”
― Hazel Gaynor, Before Dorothy

“Home is, quite simply, wherever there is love.”
― Hazel Gaynor, Before Dorothy

“Home, I now know, isn’t a place at all. Mountains or ocean, city or prairie—that’s just landscape, the view from the window when you wake. The most desolate place imaginable can feel safer than the prettiest place on earth, as long as those you love are with you.”
― Hazel Gaynor, Before Dorothy

“she looked at her reflection in the hand mirror and saw the face of a woman she knew. The face of a woman who had struggled and survived. The face of a daughter. A sister. A wife. The face of a mother.”
― Hazel Gaynor, Before Dorothy

“there are some things you can’t take with you on life’s journey. No matter how much they mean, or how precious they are, or how painful the parting.”
― Hazel Gaynor, Before Dorothy

“We all need something magical to guide us, something bigger to hope for, a reason to believe that the impossible might just become possible after all.”
― Hazel Gaynor, Before Dorothy

“Dreams aren’t always about rainbows and happy endings. They can be dark and dangerous. They can lead you astray, tempt you down the wrong road.”
― Hazel Gaynor, Before Dorothy

“A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others. —The Wizard of Oz”
― Hazel Gaynor, Before Dorothy

“visceral”
― Hazel Gaynor, Before Dorothy