The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder Quotes

“Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.”
― Rebecca Wells, The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder

“Sadness can find you anywhere, anytime, so you better have fun when you can.”
― Rebecca Wells, The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder

“Every time I thought that I was "put together," I realized that we're always putting ourselves together, gathering the world in, letting it sift down and form us.”
― Rebecca Wells, The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder

“Luna. If I could, do you think I would spare my babies from the pain and love and suffering of the body from the first breath drawn? If I could, I would spill a silk sack of secrets down, like fireflies in the hot magic air. But my dear ones might not be ready. They might just swat those sacred secrets away like mosquitoes. If I could, do you think I would use my lunar power to rob them of their beautiful, poignant, soulful earth opera?”
― Rebecca Wells, The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder

“I danced with her mother on an old wooden floor where rhythm was queen. I danced with her father as he held her mother. I danced with her mother when her belly was big, a sail blown full with the wind. I held her mother as she let go of the earth’s pull, as her family did its best to let the sweet dancing mother come home to me.”
― Rebecca Wells, The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder

“saw that pain is part of beauty—that inside of all that music, all that love, all the moonlight and sunlight, are shafts of pain, and we are meant to bear it all.”
― Rebecca Wells, The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder

“That it is kindness that makes you rich.”
― Rebecca Wells, The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder

“Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a bit fat mess every time.”
― Rebecca Wells, The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder

“At first, I thought their dance was too intimate to watch, my father in his pajamas, his eyes all red from lack of sleep, my beautiful mother’s face drawn and tired—both of them dancing themselves out of pain. I could see that it wasn’t easy for M’Dear and Papa to move like this when they hurt so much. I watched as she leaned into him for strength. I saw that pain is part of beauty—that inside of all that music, all that love, all the moonlight and sunlight, are shafts of pain, and we are meant to bear it all.”
― Rebecca Wells, The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder