All the Pretty Things Quotes

“Now that I was sitting here holding my own flesh and blood with my heart about to explode from sheer joy, I felt nearer to knowing what it meant to be loved by God. The thought occupied my mind all summer - at every diaper change and every feeding, with every coo and smile and cry.

So this is what it's like to really love someone else, to have the sum total of everything you are and love, living and breathing outside of you?

It was my first, real taste of heaven, of communion with God, and in a way, its own baptism of sorts.”
― Edie Wadsworth, All the Pretty Things: The Story of a Southern Girl Who Went through Fire to Find Her Way Home

“We fumble around in the dark, begging for wisdom, praying that our children know how much they’re loved, trying to be willing to admit when we’re wrong—because we so often are. Parenting and living require more faith than knowledge, more grace than rules, more trust than answers.”
― Edie Wadsworth, All the Pretty Things: The Story of a Southern Girl Who Went through Fire to Find Her Way Home

“body. My eyes were overflowing by the time I reached the front—thinking of her, thinking of Daddy’s cancer, thinking of the ways we were all dying, and how this meal was a promise of life.”
― Edie Wadsworth, All the Pretty Things: The Story of a Southern Girl Who Went through Fire to Find Her Way Home

“The main objective of my faith growing up was to be sure that Jesus was in my heart. Everything here pointed to Christ—everything taught the gospel story. There was a fullness and celebration here that was foreign to me. I had never known this kind of abundance. I had always set out to make my heart pure and devout, as if my heart were the only place to find spiritual life. This place wrecked all that. It seemed to be celebrating the mysteries of Creation; or as if at any point, there might be a wedding where Christ would turn water into wine.”
― Edie Wadsworth, All the Pretty Things: The Story of a Southern Girl Who Went through Fire to Find Her Way Home

“I learned to hold my compassion for Daddy and my wounds from him in the same heart. I learned that I was seeking approval and love in every man I met, and I slowly began to teach myself a better way. I learned that we all have wounds, and we can either open them up to the light of day so they can heal or we can keep them buried, where they will fester and one day wreak havoc on us.”
― Edie Wadsworth, All the Pretty Things: The Story of a Southern Girl Who Went through Fire to Find Her Way Home

“We all have wounds & we can either open them up to the light of day so they can heal or we can keep them buried where they will fester & one day wreak havoc on us. (page 244)”
― Edie Wadsworth, All the Pretty Things: The Story of a Southern Girl Who Went through Fire to Find Her Way Home

“We all have wounds, we can either open them up to the light of day so they can heal or we can keep them buried, where they will fester and one day wreak havoc on us.”
― Edie Wadsworth, All the Pretty Things: The Story of a Southern Girl Who Went through Fire to Find Her Way Home