Lighting the Flames Quotes

“I like that motto. Change what sucks into things that don’t suck.”
― Sarah Wendell, Lighting the Flames: A Hanukkah Story

“Suddenly she was so tired, a terrible, familiar weariness like what she remembered from the weeks after the accident. It was partly her own physical exhaustion and partly the deep pool of tiredness that came with grief. Emotional hangovers were almost as bad as alcoholic ones. She didn’t feel anything at the moment, no strong emotions that threatened to crash over her. But she was filled with the echoes of how she’d felt earlier, the remnants of sadness that had spun inside her,”
― Sarah Wendell, Lighting the Flames: A Hanukkah Story

“Like Gallant just busted out of Goofus.”
― Sarah Wendell, Lighting the Flames: A Hanukkah Story

“memories of her parents would sneak up on her and hit her from behind at odd moments, sometimes for the most inane of reasons. One of her friends in Iceland, a theology student named Sigridur, had called them “grief tackles,”
― Sarah Wendell, Lighting the Flames: A Hanukkah Story