The Moon Sisters Quotes

“Dreams like feet, better than knees.”
― Therese Walsh, The Moon Sisters

“But we can control ourselves—right now, in this moment. That’s something. Maybe it’s everything.”
― Therese Walsh, The Moon Sisters

“It took strength to notice things, sometimes, when those things were hidden away in dark places, stuck on the edges of the periphery. Strength to point to them and say that matters enough that I need to do something about it, especially when no one else blinked over them or everyone else forgot they were important.”
― Therese Walsh, The Moon Sisters

“It was okay to believe in things that others didn’t believe in. It was okay not to believe, too.”
― Therese Walsh, The Moon Sisters

“But it was hard to be happy when the day smelled like a big pot of I-hate-your-guts.”
― Therese Walsh, The Moon Sisters

“It took strength to notice things, sometimes, when those things”
― Therese Walsh, The Moon Sisters

“Uncontrollable. Unwilling. Unthinking. Unsafe. Shaking. Crushing. Sweating. Hot. Freezing. Tingling. Floating. Smothering. Fading. Failing. Detaching. Decaying. Declining. Turning to dust.”
― Therese Walsh, The Moon Sisters

“Hope was a powerful thing. Difficult to risk.”
― Therese Walsh, The Moon Sisters

“For the Javanese...the purpose of knowledge (kaweruh) is love, not ambition or cleverness. Knowledge comes from caring enough to suffer and learn.”
― Therese Walsh, The Last Will of Moira Leahy

“If you live your whole life hoping and dreaming the wrong things,” she said, “what does that mean about your whole life?”
― Therese Walsh, The Moon Sisters