Where the Light Gets In Quotes

“Ride the horse in the direction that it’s going.” Instead of wishing for things to be different, choose to embrace the life in front of you.”
― Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Where the Light Gets In: Losing My Mother Only to Find Her Again

“What’s this like for you?” “It’s hard,” she said, and paused to think for a moment. “But I often find that messy, complicated situations bring people closer than we would be otherwise.”
― Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Where the Light Gets In: Losing My Mother Only to Find Her Again

“This is what I came up with: My mother is not only presenting me an opportunity to love unconditionally, she’s also allowing me to practice being comfortable with what is uncomfortable. To grieve and also embrace what is broken. To know that some days I can receive who my mother is now and some days I struggle with it. To allow that two opposing thoughts may exist in my head at the same time.”
― Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Where the Light Gets In: Losing My Mother Only to Find Her Again

“And I understand now what she means about an empty space where a much-loved person used to be.”
― Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Where the Light Gets In: Losing My Mother Only to Find Her Again

“It’ll be a good story one day,” Mom would always say at moments like this.”
― Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Where the Light Gets In: Losing My Mother Only to Find Her Again

“Seek out adventures, she told us. Come back with stories.”
― Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Where the Light Gets In: Losing My Mother Only to Find Her Again

“Turn anger into compassion, and fear into faith.”
― Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Where the Light Gets In: Losing My Mother Only to Find Her Again

“My mother was teaching us not to shy away in the face of a challenge. Not to shrink from what was uncomfortable.”
― Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Where the Light Gets In: Losing My Mother Only to Find Her Again

“She’s still that voice in my head that says, “Go for it! You can do it! Even if things are scary or difficult or you’ve never done them before, do them anyway!”
― Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Where the Light Gets In: Losing My Mother Only to Find Her Again

“I hadn’t heard of the Opry, and thought Brad said he was going to perform “at the opera” (was it his accent?) when he first told me about the original home of country music.”
― Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Where the Light Gets In: Losing My Mother Only to Find Her Again

“Bless you - and keep up the good work. You've got a cheering squad here: a private applause section.”
― Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Where the Light Gets In: Losing My Mother Only to Find Her Again

“And then he went off and wrote “Little Moments.” We now joke that this is the song that got him married. He called and played it for me over the phone: I’ll never forget the first time that I heard That pretty mouth say that dirty word… It was the F-word. I knew right away that he was referring to the first time I said it in front of him, right after he told me he didn’t curse. I wanted to see what he would do, if the southern gentleman could handle a northern woman’s potty mouth.”
― Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Where the Light Gets In: Losing My Mother Only to Find Her Again