April's Rain Quotes

“Nobody can do life on their own. There ain’t nothing wrong with asking for help. As a matter of fact, a man told me one time that the best gift you can give someone is the opportunity to help you.”
― David Johnson, April's Rain

“Signs are my food, drink are my tears; Clinking of fetters such music would crave; Stink and close air, away my life wears Innocency is all the hope I have. —Sir Thomas Wyatt”
― David Johnson, April's Rain

“And he speaks best that hath the skill when for to hold his peace. —Thomas, Lord Vaux”
― David Johnson, April's Rain

“My idea of listening to his voice is that he will show me how to overcome the obstacles in my path, not that he will remove them from my path. And it’s the end of the journey that I’m interested in, the one that comes after the final obstacle—death.”
― David Johnson, April's Rain

“Oh my lord," Smiley exclaims.  "We've got to roll her off of Billy before he smothers to death.”
― David Johnson, April's Rain

“instead”
― David Johnson, April's Rain

“When things go wrong in a child’s world, children believe it is their fault. They believe there is something they should have done or perhaps something they can do that will fix it. The problem with that belief is that it is a lie.”
― David Johnson, April's Rain

“person is faced with a choice, an’ no matter how they choose, somebody’s gonna get hurt. There jes’ ain’t no way ’round it. So they gotta decide. And it ain’t th’ kind o’ situation where they can go talk t’ people an’ get their advice. No, it’s somethin’ they gotta decide right there in th’ moment, sometimes a split-second of a moment. An’ after they choose, it’s one o’ them things that can’t never be undone. That’s th’ worst part, that there’s no changin’ yore mind and takin’ it back ’r fixin’ things back like they was. What’s done is done an’ you jes’ gotta live with it, maybe even die with it.”
― David Johnson, April's Rain

“I take a slow, deep breath. “There’s one last CHAPTER. My grandmother, my fairy godmother, Ella, got cancer again”
― David Johnson, April's Rain

“has on camouflage”
― David Johnson, April's Rain

“It’s one o’ th’ things that lets y’ know you got a good friend, when y’ can sit together an’ not say nothin’ an’ both o’ you is comfortable with th’ silence.”
― David Johnson, April's Rain

“Behold this fleeting world, how all things fade, How everything doth pass and wear away; Each state of life, by common course and trade, Abides no time, but hath a passing day. —Barnabe Googe”
― David Johnson, April's Rain

“high”
― David Johnson, April's Rain

“Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. – Alexander Pope”
― David R. Johnson, April's Rain

“I sought my death and found it in my womb, I looked for life and saw it was a shade, I trod the earth and knew it was my tomb, And now I die, and now I was but made; My glass is full, and now my glass is run, And now I live, and now my life is done. —Chidiock Tichborne”
― David R. Johnson, April's Rain

“Whatever kind of energy you bring to it, it will give it right back to you. If you’re frustrated, it’ll act frustrated. If you’re calm, it’s more likely to be calm, too.”
― David R. Johnson, April's Rain

“When things go wrong in a child’s world, children believe it is their fault. They believe there is something they should have done or perhaps something they can do that will fix it. The problem with that belief is that it is a lie.”
― David Johnson, April's Rain

“You can’t out-sin God’s forgiveness.’ What I believe that means, Tucker, is that God has more forgiveness than you have sins—no matter how many you have or how big you think they are.”
― David Johnson, April's Rain