Sisters Quotes

“I’ve finally come to fully understand that you can’t fix another person. You can’t fix the past. You can only change your way of reacting to it. You have to wait for other people to fix themselves.”
― Lisa Wingate, Sisters

“Here’s the thing. If you keep looking backward, all the obstacles you think are behind you are actually still ahead of you. If you’re bumping across the same things over and over, it’s a”
― Lisa Wingate, Sisters

“Our family ties to those mysterious mountain people show most in my youngest sister. In her, I can see the triracial mix rumored to have long ago created the Melungeons, who were known as neither black nor white nor Native American. The descendants of lost sailors, escaped slaves, and indigenous peoples—all three. There is still no one who can conclusively tell the story of Appalachia’s “blue-eyed Indians” and how they came to be here before the first recorded European explorers pressed in.”
― Lisa Wingate, Sisters

“Maybe life is a series of little deaths and rebirths, of passages and rites of passage, of God teaching you to stop clinging to one thing so you can reach for another.”
― Lisa Wingate, Sisters