Umbrella Summer Quotes

“Her favorite animal was sea lions. Mine was giraffes. Her favorite movie was Casablanca, which she said was old and black-and-white and very romantic. She tried to tell me what it was about, but it all sounded about as much fun as eating burned bread crusts.”
― Lisa Graff, Umbrella Summer: A Heartwarming Novel About Grief, Healing, and Hope for Kids

“brother died.”
― Lisa Graff, Umbrella Summer: A Heartwarming Novel About Grief, Healing, and Hope for Kids

“When it's raining, you put up an umbrella, right? So you won't get wet?"........"But say you're out walking for a long time, holding your umbrella high up in the air to protect you against the rain. If you're too busy worrying about not getting wet, or just thinking about something else entirely, you may not even notice that it's stopped raining. So there you are, with your umbrella still open above you, and there's no more rain at all. You may not be getting wet, but you're missing the sunshine."........"I think all your worries are like an umbrella for you.”
― Lisa Graff, Umbrella Summer

“I wished there was a way to keep that in a bottle, that one moment of wonderful perfect, so I could open it up whenever I needed to get a good whiff.”
― Lisa Graff, Umbrella Summer: A Heartwarming Novel About Grief, Healing, and Hope for Kids

“Maybe it only took one person to open an umbrella and stick it up in the air to block out the rain, but it took a whole lot of people to close it. And even though I was pretty sure I still had a few more inches to go, I knew that once my umbrella was all the way closed, I was going to keep it like that for a long time.”
― Lisa Graff, Umbrella Summer

“At least I wasn’t Major Disaster. That was Tommy’s mom.”
― Lisa Graff, Umbrella Summer: A Heartwarming Novel About Grief, Healing, and Hope for Kids