Light of the Moon Quotes

“When a mother loves her child as much as yours loved you, she might find it impossible to let go, to leave you, if you were sitting right there. She had to wait for you to go away before she could die.”
― Luanne Rice, Light of the Moon

“You just said you love them, Susannah,” Helen said finally. “So you must ask yourself: what are you willing to do for them?”
― Luanne Rice, Light of the Moon

“Susannah set the table with Provençal cotton linens, the tablecloth pale pumpkin and the napkins printed with faded red and purple flowers, her throat caught. She had wanted to make this meal so special for Sari and Grey. She set out silverware, bright crockery, a Lucite peppermill and a blue container of Fleur-de-Sel de Camargue. She still had Grey’s black scallop shells and she arranged them in the center of the table, around a vase of colorful wildflowers.”
― Luanne Rice, Light of the Moon

“She picked out the most delicious food she could find, brought it home. She’d gotten things that were meaningful, that would connect with this magical time she’d had in the Camargue. Coquilles St. Jacques, glistening pink with the red roe still attached; small local crabs, just like the favouilles they’d seen last night; pencil-thin stalks of asparagus, as green as the fields all around the Manade; delicate squash blossoms, to be stuffed with a duxelles of mushrooms and herbs, the color bright saffron, reminiscent of the garland of flowers painted in the Dempseys’ kitchen.”
― Luanne Rice, Light of the Moon

“biography of Django Reinhardt. There’s a lot of material about Stes.-Maries, and the caravans.”
― Luanne Rice, Light of the Moon

“The words were terrible, but they didn’t have any power.”
― Luanne Rice, Light of the Moon

“Falling in love,” his father had said. “It’s like taking a horse over a brush fence—you get air, rise up, take the jump. And you might land okay, or you might go flying. You want to make sure you’re on solid ground. That’s what loving someone is like: you land safely. You have ground under your feet.”
― Luanne Rice, Light of the Moon

“Anthropology was the study of humanity. Susannah’s interest lay in the way human beings related to each other and their environments at various periods of history.”
― Luanne Rice, Light of the Moon

“We die alone, the saying went. But Susannah had never believed it. Not when you come from a close family, not when you are surrounded by love.”
― Luanne Rice, Light of the Moon

“falling.”
― Luanne Rice, Light of the Moon