The Four Seasons Quotes

“I can’t change the past. I can’t take the hurt back. But I can soften it if I can just learn how to accept it.”
― Mary Alice Monroe, The Four Seasons

“Basically it means there is no one correct view of the universe. We each see things from our own frame of reference.”
― Mary Alice Monroe, The Four Seasons

“The secret to survival was in seeing the world through the eyes—and heart—of a child. That was Merry’s lesson to her sisters. To treasure life, and most of all, to love. Simply, unconditionally and with joyful abandon. To love without demanding or expecting anything in return.”
― Mary Alice Monroe, The Four Seasons

“This anger I felt wasn’t about the child at all. It’s inside me and it’s poisoning so many of my relationships. It leaves so little room for compassion.” She reached up to wipe a tear from her face. “That’s no way to live. I have to get over it. I may need some help, I don’t know. But I realized something today dredging up all those murky memories. I can’t change the past. I can’t take the hurt back. But I can soften it if I can just learn how to accept it.”
― Mary Alice Monroe, The Four Seasons

“see so many things in you, Anne Marie,” she said softly, tilting her head as she continued her perusal. “The way you move your head a certain way, the breathiness of your voice, the manner in which you hold your shoulders back when you walk. They say there are blood ties in every family and I believe it. I’d like to tell you everything there is to know about me and my family—your family. Not to detract from the family that you already have, but to add to it.”
― Mary Alice Monroe, The Four Seasons

“Be strong, my baby girl. Be happy. You will survive.” And so, she vowed, would she.”
― Mary Alice Monroe, The Four Seasons

“But she had the chance now to make things right, at least for her daughter. She may have done a lot of things wrong, but the decision to give up her child would be the one responsible, unselfish act of her life. It was the best thing she’d ever done. But it felt like the worst.”
― Mary Alice Monroe, The Four Seasons

“A mother never hears the words “I hate you” without cringing and feeling like a hopeless failure.”
― Mary Alice Monroe, The Four Seasons

“Wichita. The roads here are flat and I can see for miles. Easy driving. Times like these, I wish you were sitting here beside me chatting, instead”
― Mary Alice Monroe, The Four Seasons