Saints for All Occasions Quotes

“It was amazing that you did not become your grief entirely, and walk around leaking it everywhere. It could lie dormant inside you for days, weeks, years. You could seem a perfectly whole person to everyone you met. Without warning, grief might poke you in the ribs, punch you in the gut, knock the wind out of you. But even then, you seemed just fine. The world went on and on.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions

“One of life's contradictions: how human beings were at once entirely resilient and impossibly fragile. One decision could stay with you forever, and yet you could live through almost anything.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions

“What would you have today if you woke up with only the things you thanked God for yesterday?” He wondered”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions

“It wasn't right that you could only understand your parents' pain once you'd experienced the things they had, and by then they were gone.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions

“The moment a woman was born determined so much of who she was allowed to become.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions

“Nothing had just happened to her, she had made a choice, and then she had made another and another after that. Taken together, the small choices anyone made added up to a life.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions

“Old age had distilled her down to her essence.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions

“Motherhood was a physical act as much as an emotional one. It took every part of you.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions

“It was amazing that you did not become your grief entirely, and walk about leaking it everywhere.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions

“I exist in two places, here and where you are. —MARGARET ATWOOD,”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions

“Her faith in God was renewed by the simple return of morning, containing the seeds of the day ahead, bringing with it new seeds of redemption, for grace.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions

“That was something no one ever told you. That you would have to get to know your own children.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions

“This was a bargain she struck, a ritual to guarantee safety. Nothing truly bad could happen if she was expecting it.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions

“She had made a choice and then she had made another and another after that. Taken together, the small choices anyone made added up to a life.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions

“It was so nice to be on the cusp of parenthood, to be able to judge other people's choices with confidence, not yet having made any mistakes of their own.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions

“Each of Nora's children had arrived on this earth as him or herself, the more she knew them, the more she felt it to be true. They were so different from one another, and from her.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions

“She had learned over time that to know anything was bearable. It was secrecy that could not be borne.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions

“She was her mother’s daughter, she supposed. Prickly when she was most in need of love.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions

“Angel of God, my guardian dear to whom God’s love commits me here. Ever this day be at my side to light and guard, to rule and guide. Amen.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions

“What would you have today if you woke up with only the things you thanked God for yesterday”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions

“She had tried once to attend a Unitarian Universalist church service, but she couldn't locate God there, in that place of rainbows and kindness.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions

“The deeper you came into union with God, the more you came to accept people the way they were.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions

“There are as many paths to God as there are souls on this Earth. Rumi”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions

“One of Nora’s favorite sayings was, “What would you have today if you woke up with only the things you thanked God for yesterday?”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions

“Each of Nora’s children had arrived on this earth as him- or herself. The more she knew them, the more she felt it to be true. They were so different from one another, and from her.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions

“Her faith that love was everything in the end, even if it was an imperfect love, a love that depended on memory, on some former version of who they”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions

“One of life’s contradictions: how human beings were at once entirely resilient and impossibly fragile. One decision could stay with you forever, and yet you could live through almost anything.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions

“A child had no choice but to forgive.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions

“It’s a common enough mistake to believe that one’s own time is the most progressive, the most advanced. That human nature only improves upon itself. But in fact, things move in cycles—good to bad and back again.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions

“Think of a marriage, husband and wife. The piece of paper, the white wedding dress, they don't promise anything. A person has to stay there, fight for it, every day.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions