Flowers in the Snow Quotes

“Sometimes a hug is the only way to squeeze someone's worry away.”
― Danielle Stewart, Flowers in the Snow

“By being exactly who you are. When you see someone in pain, stop and help them. When you see someone alone, be a friend. Know there is value to every single life. The most important lesson I ever learned was that every single group of people, divided up however they like by race, religion, or beliefs, has in it the most wonderful, kind-hearted, peaceful, and loving people that you will be happy you met, and every single group of people, divided however they like by race, religion, or beliefs, has in it the poorest excuse for humans, and you will be sorry you met them. There is no way to know by looking at someone which type they are.”
― Danielle Stewart, Flowers in the Snow

“That’s the lesson of my life; family is who you decide to love, not necessarily who you’re related to.”
― Danielle Stewart, Flowers in the Snow

“It won’t be easy. Right now you’re in the middle of the kind of heartbreak that is bone deep. It will come in waves and you’ll want to drown in it. You’ll promise yourself you won’t cry, and then you’ll break that promise a million times. But someday it will change. Your heart will begin to see vibrant colors again. Because grief is not a place to stay, it’s a doorway to pass through.”
― Danielle Stewart, Flowers in the Snow

“There’s a big difference between a mother and a mama.”
― Danielle Stewart, Flowers in the Snow

“family is who you decide to love, not necessarily who you’re related to.”
― Danielle Stewart, Flowers in the Snow

“Different is the hardest thing to be sometimes.”
― Danielle Stewart, Flowers in the Snow

“Because grief is not a place to stay, it’s a doorway to pass through.”
― Danielle Stewart, Flowers in the Snow

“Winnie once said grief was the last connection you have to someone. The deeper the love shared the more cavernous the grief.”
― Danielle Stewart, Flowers in the Snow

“My great grandmamma used to say the way people treat their kids is a reflection of how they feel about themselves,” Winnie offered, as she seemed to give the boy more thought.”
― Danielle Stewart, Flowers in the Snow

“I don’t keep secrets from my husband,” Winnie said, planting a kiss on his cheek. “I just bother him until he lets me do things my way, like any good marriage.”
― Danielle Stewart, Flowers in the Snow

“the biggest truth in this world. Love is greater than any differences we have.”
― Danielle Stewart, Flowers in the Snow

“Love is greater than any differences we have.”
― Danielle Stewart, Flowers in the Snow

“An inquisitive and confident mind is what makes the world evolve. If people didn’t question why things are done, the world would never be forced to improve.”
― Danielle Stewart, Flowers in the Snow

“A fortitude that most flowers don’t have. But the ones that do have what it takes are the most beautiful of all.”
― Danielle Stewart, Flowers in the Snow

“Why do you think God gave you a mouth that could close but ears that couldn’t?”
― Danielle Stewart, Flowers in the Snow

“Times”
― Danielle Stewart, Flowers in the Snow

“she remembered Winnie telling her change never came from a comfortable place. When she was spat on, shoved, threatened, and afraid, she remembered it was hate causing all this pain, and throughout history hate had yet to win.”
― Danielle Stewart, Flowers in the Snow

“That’s how she knew it was completely acceptable to let the ghosts of the past possess you for a while, as long as you didn’t let them stay too long.”
― Danielle Stewart, Flowers in the Snow

“It’s funny how the mind can be selective in its archiving of memories.”
― Danielle Stewart, Flowers in the Snow

“sometimes the only way to go on is to accept the apology you never get.”
― Danielle Stewart, Flowers in the Snow

“Sometimes a hug is the only way to squeeze someone’s worry away.”
― Danielle Stewart, Flowers in the Snow

“The way to be worth listening to is to say the right things, but also leave the wrong things unsaid.”
― Danielle Stewart, Flowers in the Snow

“It's better to stop the apology before you get to the part with the excuse.”
― Danielle Stewart, Flowers in the Snow

“it doesn’t matter what you say you’d do, it only matters what you actually get up and do. So”
― Danielle Stewart, Flowers in the Snow

“there’s no point wasting the little time we have debating things that don’t have answers. Not”
― Danielle Stewart, Flowers in the Snow

“Sometimes you have to take control of your own life and reinvent yourself in order to be happy.”
― Danielle Stewart, Flowers in the Snow

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― Danielle Stewart, Flowers in the Snow

“charged up to the school. The police had not yet arrived, but the Klan had dispersed, as you would expect cowards to do. Nate found Simpson at the edge of a fire, about to be consumed by it. He lifted his very”
― Danielle Stewart, Flowers in the Snow

“where to begin. On that horrible night after the dance, you witnessed so many things. You saw the culmination of hate, the bravery of a hero, and the test of even your own will. But what you didn’t see is the murder of Simpson. That’s because he was not killed. As the fighting ensued he was beaten”
― Danielle Stewart, Flowers in the Snow