Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles Quotes

“Maybe I really can see
The face of God.
Maybe it's there
When I sit with my
Patched-together family
For pancake breakfast.
Maybe it's in the power
Of the sea,
Or in the driftwood
That gets hurled about
By storms.
Maybe it's in the words
Of an ice-cream man
Or the joyful leaps
Of a dolphin.
It might even be in the pain
Of leaving my new best friend,
Or maybe
It's especially in that.
Maybe all these things
Show me the face of God,
Or maybe they just show me
A bit of light
Or love
Or happiness.
And maybe that's exactly
The same thing.”
― Shari Green, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles

“I close my hand
around the bit of turquoise sea glass
in my pocket,
rub its smooth edges
with my thumb -
a broken bit
made smooth and beautiful,
changed
by the sea."
-Bailey”
― Shari Green, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles

“He hands me a book-
paperback cover
with a picture
of the bay.
I flip through,
find picture
after picture
from my month
in Felicity Bay,
all those
*beep*
*click*
*beep*
times that Daniel
captured,
put in a book -
a baby crab,
mermaid hair,
Froot Loops,
sandy toes,
tree house,
and even
stained glass windows,
and a chalice -
moments of significance,
ordinary things
that turned out to be
extraordinary."
-Bailey”
― Shari Green, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles

“I guess truth
is like treasure-
no good to anyone
if it's hidden,
tucked away in a box,
lost."
-Bailey”
― Shari Green, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles

“The room
And my heart
Are draped
With a wondrous hush
Like swimming under water.”
― Shari Green, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles

“Maybe I really can see
the face of God.
Maybe it's there
when I sit with my
patched-together family
for pancake breakfast.
Maybe it's in the power
oft he sea,
or in the driftwood
that gets hurled about
by storms.
Maybe it's in the words
of an ice-cream man
or the joyful leaps
of a dolphin.
It might even be in the pain
of leaving my new best friend,
or maybe
it's especially in that.
Maybe all these things
show me the face of God,
or maybe they just show me
a bit of light
or love
or happiness.
And maybe that's exactly
the same thing."
-Bailey”
― Shari Green, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles

“I really thought I wanted magic -
for God to do big
dramatic
miracles,
fix my family,
Daniel's lungs,
everything,
but the ordinary mess
and the spoon-worthy,
*beep-click-beep* moments
are actually
sort of cool -
a different kind of perfect"
-Bailey”
― Shari Green, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles

“I guess you never know
how brave you are
until you let go
of the rope."
-Bailey”
― Shari Green, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles

“Isn't *up*
where hopes
are supposed to be?"
-Bailey”
― Shari Green, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles

“What good is truth
if you bury it?"
-Jasper”
― Shari Green, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles

“How can a person look sad
even though
he's smiling?
Like rain
from a clear blue sky."
-Bailey”
― Shari Green, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles

“...fear makes people hold tight to things,
whether it makes sense
or not."
-Nana Marie”
― Shari Green, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles

“When Mom calls
after dinner,
I tell her about the good party
gone bad.
She says that can happen
to even the best
of things."
-Bailey”
― Shari Green, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles

“OLOTB: Do you know what my favorite creatures are?

Bailey: ...

OLOTB: Sea stars. I'm very fond of them. Can you guess why?

Bailey: Their colors?

OLOTB: They regenerate - if they lose and arm, they grow a new one. Amazing! It's just a little bud at first, but in a year or so, they've got a whole new arm.

Bailey: A year?

OLOTB: You don't suppose growing something new is easy, do you?”
― Shari Green, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles

“Tuesday it rains
of course-
a perfect day
for books."
-Bailey”
― Shari Green, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles

“It doesn't make sense
but sometimes
the most wonderful things
don't."
-Bailey”
― Shari Green, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles

“You're taking down your fence? I say.

Got enough things
Keeping people apart
Without adding a crooked fence.”
― Shari Green, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles

“OLOTB: You should look at it under a microscope.
Bailey: Look at what?
OLOTB: The sand. You'd think it would be boring bits of gray nothingness, but it's not. It's minerals--quartz, fragments of sea shells, all sorts of delightful things. Exquisite, really.
Bailey: So, I just ran across a bunch of minerals?
OLOTB: Who'd have thought you were tromping on such beauty?”
― Shari Green, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles