Songs of Willow Frost Quotes

“The library is like a candy store where everything is free.”
― Jamie Ford, Songs of Willow Frost

“Seeing isn't believing, feeling is believing." She reached out and patted his coat, finding the space above his heart, where the handbill was safely tucked away. "I feel you.”
― Jamie Ford, Songs of Willow Frost

“She’d never felt more alone, even as hundreds of people walked by. No one recognized her, and she began to treasure her anonymity as a gift.”
― Jamie Ford, Songs of Willow Frost

“Somehow life had become a story problem, and William was horrible at math.”
― jamie ford, Songs of Willow Frost

“We don’t get to choose our parents,” Sunny said. “If we did, some of us might choose never to be born at all.”
― Jamie Ford, Songs of Willow Frost

“Seeing isn’t believing. Feeling is believing.”
― Jamie Ford, Songs of Willow Frost

“Home is a fairy tale, the kind where children are lost in the woods, found, cooked and eaten.”
― Jamie Ford, Songs of Willow Frost

“Reality stripped of the armor of optimism was nothing but naked truth—pale and weak.”
― Jamie Ford, Songs of Willow Frost

“If there was anything she had learned from her mother, it was the painful understanding that cages come in all sizes—some even have white picket fences, four walls, and a front door.”
― Jamie Ford, Songs of Willow Frost

“Perché la scomoda verità era che nessuno era del tutto buono o del tutto cattivo. Né madri né padri, né figli né figlie, né mogli né mariti. La vita sarebbe stata molto più facile se fosse stato così. Invece ognuno portava in sé una mescolanza confusa di amore e odio, gioia e dolore, nostalgia e oblio, verità travisate e inganni dolorosi.”
― Jamie Ford, Songs of Willow Frost

“Da piccolo aveva paura di perderla, paura di restare da solo. Ora la sua ah-ma era tornata, eppure lui non si era mai sentito così solo. Non si era reso conto che era possibile sentirsi in lutto per la perdita di qualcuno che era ancora vivo.”
― Jamie Ford, Songs of Willow Frost

“truest definition of a man, so stubborn but needy at the same time”
― Jamie Ford, Songs of Willow Frost

“Seeing isn’t believing. Feeling is believing.” She reached out and patted his coat, finding the space above his heart, where the handbill was safely tucked away. “I feel you.”
― Jamie Ford, Songs of Willow Frost

“They’d been pinned down with thumbscrews of truth, preferring the monotony of melancholy to the nauseating highs and lows of hope and inevitable disappointment.”
― Jamie Ford, Songs of Willow Frost

“...she could smell her mother's skin, her lotion, her perfume-- her essence. She missed her so much. She clawed at her pillow, wanting to cry, but tears never came, just a swirling riptide of feeling--anger, abandonment, the fear of being alone, and the weight of the emotional millstone still tied around her neck, submerging her further into the murky depths of stinging, biting solitude. She wished she could wail all night. Instead she curled up in the darkness of her bedroom, listening to her racing heartbeat, which eventually slowed, like the ticking of a clock unwound.”
― Jamie Ford, Songs of Willow Frost

“Because the uncomfortable truth is that no one is all bad, or all good. Not mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, or husbands and wives. Life would be much easier if that were the case. Instead, everyone—Charlotte, Willow, Mr. Rigg, even Sister Briganti—was a confusing mixture of love and hate, joy and sorrow, longing and forgetting, misguided truth and painful deception.”
― Jamie Ford, Songs of Willow Frost

“All he wished for was a happy ending.”
― Jamie Ford, Songs of Willow Frost

“All good things come to an end. All bad things go on forever.”
― Jamie Ford, Songs of Willow Frost