The Saints of the Lost and Found Quotes

“There are some pains that ride around in your coat pocket—you’re aware they’re there. They’re heavy and beat against you as you walk, but you’ll eventually take off the coat and forget you ever carried around something so sharp and misshapen. Other pains, though, brand your soul, changing everything about who you are, how you identify yourself, how you think, how you breathe, how you live. Sometimes, the only reason you go on living is because you feel compelled to bear witness to the loss, to say to the world: “This person lived. He was real, and I loved him.”
― Toni McGee Causey, The Saints of the Lost and Found

“It’s funny—we worry about the big things, about the big decisions we make in our lives, and how they’ll affect us. Take this job or that job? Go to school? Marry; don’t marry. Move? But it’s the little decisions we make that irrevocably destroy us. Dine in or take out? Turn left here or wait a block? Each one of those little decisions drives us toward our end, and we don’t even know it.”
― Toni McGee Causey, The Saints of the Lost and Found

“(Bless her heart's Southern for 'that bitch,' which Meryl was too polite to say out loud.)”
― Toni McGee Causey, The Saints of the Lost and Found

“Like orphans at a Thanksgiving meal or stray dogs huddling on a cold night, they had an unspoken pact.”
― Linda McDonald, Crimes of Redemption

“Willie did not need a psychiatrist to explain this woman’s glamour profile: Neiman-Marcus-camouflage for a serious absence of soul.”
― Linda McDonald, Crimes of Redemption