The Sea Glass Sisters Quotes

“Every decision you make in life has benefits and consequences. Sometimes you just have to go on faith, and even that comes at a price. It means you have to give up the idea that you’re the one in charge of the universe.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters

“decision you make in life has benefits and consequences. Sometimes you just have to go on faith, and even that comes at a price. It means you have to give up the idea that you’re the one in charge of the universe.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters

“You know how it is. The storms come and it’s water and wind as far as the eye can see for a bit. But winds calm and the waters drain. We find our feet again, and the ground under us sprouts a new crop of seed. That is always the way of it. I don’t suppose this storm will be any different.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters

“That’s the only thing you can do with a mess. Start cleaning it up, a little at a time.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters

“The shadow of the highest evil intermingled with the light of the highest good. Maybe all lives are filled with this. Maybe it is always a choice between embracing the darkness of one or the saving grace of the other.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters

“Parenthood is the only career in which the better you do your job, the sooner you’re fired.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters

“Perhaps this rebirth from one thing to another happens repeatedly in a lifetime. Maybe life is a series of little deaths and rebirths, of passages and rites of passage, of God teaching you to stop clinging to one thing so you can reach for another.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters

“Is survival sometimes about death and rebirth? Egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly?”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters

“I decipher the brewing machine because I am, after all, trained to save lives, and this is a life-or-death situation. We need coffee. Now. Or heads will roll.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters

“It’s funny how family histories seem to differ, depending on whom you ask.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters

“We’ve tried to set her straight, but you don’t set that woman anywhere. She’s like the value of pi. She just is.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters

“No way out but through the storm now.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters

“There will always be those memories that tie us together, those invisible strings. The careless stitches of mother and daughter. Suddenly”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters

“The storms come and it’s water and wind as far as the eye can see for a bit. But winds calm and the waters drain. We find our feet again, and the ground under us sprouts a new crop of seed. That is always the way of it. I don’t suppose this storm will be any different.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters

“That’s really nice.” I picture my mother and my aunt, a little over four years apart in age, curled up in the same bed, sharing innocent games of Let’s Pretend. It makes the present situation seem that much sadder. Should geography and real estate signs outweigh the bonds formed by the shared milestones of childhood?”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters

“Something good comes of even the worst events. Is it possible? I wonder.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters

“There’s something magical about that time when your babies are small, when you’re the center of their world, the person they love the most.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters

“Pride is a steamroller. It’ll clear the path for a while, but sooner or later it’ll shift into reverse, and then . . . look out.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters

“I really need an ice cream cone right now. Chocolate. Anything chocolate. Maybe chocolate ice cream dipped in chocolate.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters

“May the two of you walk the shore side by side sharing sister stories for many years to come.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters

“Emily is safe now as well. I know it. She isn’t cold or alone or hungry. She is not lost in the woods, running wildly as in my dreams. Seeking rescue. She is home. All around her, there is nothing but love.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters

“Is survival sometimes about death and rebirth? Egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly? Is this, this ending of our family as I know it, not the death season but the birth of the butterfly season?”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters

“. . The shadow of the highest evil intermingled with the light of the highest good. Maybe all lives are filled with this. Maybe it is always a choice between embracing the darkness of one or the saving grace of the other.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters

“The trick,” she says, “is to find a new dream for the next part of your life. Then empty nest becomes a beginning, not an ending.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters

“Every decision you make in life has benefits and consequences. Sometimes you just have to go on faith, and even that comes at a price. It means you have to give up the idea that you’re the one in charge”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters

“Perhaps this rebirth from one thing to another happens repeatedly in a lifetime. Maybe life is a series of little deaths and rebirths, of passages and rites of passage, of God teaching you to stop clinging to one thing so you can reach for another. A death grip doesn’t reach very well.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters

“shadow of the highest evil intermingled with the light of the highest good. Maybe all lives are filled with this. Maybe it is always a choice between embracing the darkness of one or the saving grace of the other.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters

“The trick,” she says, “is to find a new dream for the next part of your life. Then empty nest becomes a beginning, not an ending.” “I know.” I try to shift her off the subject.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters