Crossing Tinker's Knob Quotes

“Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.”
― Inglath Cooper, Crossing Tinker's Knob

“Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.
– Author Unknown”
― Inglath Cooper, Crossing Tinker's Knob

“Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.”
― Inglath Cooper, Crossing Tinker's Knob

“Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards.”
― Inglath Cooper, Crossing Tinker's Knob

“He felt an enormous responsibility in being the one to declare their worth or lack thereof. What if he threw away something that had been especially meaningful to his grandmother, a family memory that once discarded by him would no longer exist?”
― Inglath Cooper, Crossing Tinker's Knob

“In the same way that the wind blows spores of a dandelion across a green yard, and they begin to pop up everywhere, the same is true of hatred, the seeds multiplying one by one until the landscape it has fallen upon is forever changed.”
― Inglath Cooper, Crossing Tinker's Knob

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”
― William Shakespeare”
― Inglath Cooper, Crossing Tinker's Knob

“What is deservedly suffered must be borne with
calmness, but when the pain is unmerited,
the grief is resistless.”
― Inglath Cooper, Crossing Tinker's Knob

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
– Henry David Thoreau”
― Inglath Cooper, Crossing Tinker's Knob

“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
– Aeschylus”
― Inglath Cooper, Crossing Tinker's Knob

“I’ve seen with my own eyes the tragedy that can result from a single seed of hate. That’s all it takes, really, just one. It’s easy to miss at first, a seemingly benign judgmental word, resentment, jealousy. In the same way that the wind blows spores of a dandelion across a green yard, and they begin to pop up everywhere, the same is true of hatred, the seeds multiplying one by one until the landscape it has fallen upon is forever changed. ​​30​​ ​​Unexpected Encounter You don’t choose your family.”
― Inglath Cooper, Crossing Tinker's Knob

“Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.
– Author Unknown”
― Inglath Cooper, Crossing Tinker's Knob

“Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.”
― Inglath Cooper, Crossing Tinker's Knob

“Wasn’t there something inherently selfish about confessions, anyway? The guilty party’s chance to purge their guilt. Never mind that another person got flattened in the process. Ignorance was bliss. No pain in not knowing.”
― Inglath Cooper, Crossing Tinker's Knob

“when people are different and don’t believe the same things, it’s not likely that a life together would ever work.”
― Inglath Cooper, Crossing Tinker's Knob

“grounded her, reminded her that sometimes a thread of the past could weave its way into the present.”
― Inglath Cooper, Crossing Tinker's Knob

“asks.”
― Inglath Cooper, Crossing Tinker's Knob

“If you judge people you have no time to love them.
– Mother Teresa”
― Inglath Cooper, Crossing Tinker's Knob

“The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.” – Sir Walter Scott”
― Inglath Cooper, Crossing Tinker's Knob

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” – Soren Kierkegaard”
― Inglath Cooper, Crossing Tinker's Knob

“Cometo me, all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest. It”
― Inglath Cooper, Crossing Tinker's Knob

“She understood then in a way she never had before what it meant to find the one against whom all others would forever be judged. The one for whom there would be no comparison.”
― Inglath Cooper, Crossing Tinker's Knob

“Sometimes, it is nearly impossible to look beyond the parameters of the boxes we put ourselves in.”
― Inglath Cooper, Crossing Tinker's Knob

“He lets the consequences of our actions play out their natural course. We tip the domino, and the track is set, each piece falling in upon itself until the end result is the only one it could have been.”
― Inglath Cooper, Crossing Tinker's Knob

“Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.”
― Inglath Cooper, Crossing Tinker's Knob

“With amusement in her eyes, Becca took a sip of her tea,”
― Inglath Cooper, Crossing Tinker's Knob

“And she wondered then how many amazing views she’d missed from the safety of her spot here at the bottom.”
― Inglath Cooper, Crossing Tinker's Knob

“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.”
― Inglath Cooper, Crossing Tinker's Knob

“someone who wants the same life I want. Mama says when people are different and don’t believe the same things, it’s not likely that a life together would ever work. My brother Jacob and my sister Becca are both choosing a different path, and I worry that what Mama said will come true for them. I’ve always loved our life. Unlike some of the girls I know from church, I never once wanted to be like the other people we saw in town on Saturday trips to the grocery store. Never wished for things we didn’t have. I like the idea of being the same at the end of my life as I was at the beginning.”
― Inglath Cooper, Crossing Tinker's Knob

“doesn’t limit itself to a place, but applies to the lives of its people as well. The present, after all, cannot exist without its past. The two are inextricably tied, a circle that must eventually find its point of completion. For my characters here, raised in a county of like and different, the ends of the circle are about to connect, the ensuing collision forever altering the journey”
― Inglath Cooper, Crossing Tinker's Knob