The Carolina Heirlooms Collection Quotes

“How wonderful the days when all was well. How necessary, also, that we must release them now. It is fine enough to glance at the past, but one must never focus there overlong. Don’t you think?”
― Lisa Wingate, The Carolina Heirlooms Collection: The Prayer Box / The Story Keeper / The Sea Keeper's Daughters

“When we look only at our own plans, we miss the infinite possibilities of a greater plan.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Carolina Heirlooms Collection: The Prayer Box / The Story Keeper / The Sea Keeper's Daughters

“The heart is a wellspring. It has infinite capacity to manufacture love. The only barriers are the ones we put in the way.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Carolina Heirlooms Collection: The Prayer Box / The Story Keeper / The Sea Keeper's Daughters

“Forgiveness given is forgiveness gained.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Carolina Heirlooms Collection: The Prayer Box / The Story Keeper / The Sea Keeper's Daughters

“Ever’body got a reason for what they do. You eat off somebody else’s plate, drink a their cup, could be, you’d be that same way.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Carolina Heirlooms Collection: The Prayer Box / The Story Keeper / The Sea Keeper's Daughters

“So often it is our narrow focus that limits us, she is saying. When we look only at our own plans, we miss the infinite possibilities of a greater plan.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Carolina Heirlooms Collection: The Prayer Box / The Story Keeper / The Sea Keeper's Daughters

“often it is our narrow focus that limits us, she is saying. When we look only at our own plans, we miss the infinite possibilities of a greater plan.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Carolina Heirlooms Collection: The Prayer Box / The Story Keeper / The Sea Keeper's Daughters

“The glory is forever. Those were Aginisi’s last words to her in Cherokee. Her death words. It was a done thing now.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Carolina Heirlooms Collection: The Prayer Box / The Story Keeper / The Sea Keeper's Daughters

“Conscience is a formidable and determined adversary. By nature, it strikes the weakest point in a man’s reasoning.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Carolina Heirlooms Collection: The Prayer Box / The Story Keeper / The Sea Keeper's Daughters

“All labor is joy,” she tells me. “It is not washing dirty floors, but the feet of Jesus, Iola. All we do for others, we do for the One Most High.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Carolina Heirlooms Collection: The Prayer Box / The Story Keeper / The Sea Keeper's Daughters

“Sister Marguerite wasn’t her sister, but a nun—a teacher or a caretaker. The letters were Iola’s prayers, her private thoughts. That’s why they’d never been mailed. These letters weren’t meant for earth, but for heaven. Not for her biological father, but for God.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Carolina Heirlooms Collection: The Prayer Box / The Story Keeper / The Sea Keeper's Daughters

“In a few years, she would realize that there was nothing she could do to change the world around her, to repair the people she needed most. The missing pieces were out of reach of her tiny hands, the broken places not hers to mend. In my adult mind I understood that, but deep inside me there would always be the girl who wondered if she could have fixed things.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Carolina Heirlooms Collection: The Prayer Box / The Story Keeper / The Sea Keeper's Daughters

“The opposite of getting your hopes up is not harboring any,”
― Lisa Wingate, The Carolina Heirlooms Collection: The Prayer Box / The Story Keeper / The Sea Keeper's Daughters

“You don’t forget the feeling of stepping through a door and understanding in some unexplainable way that death has walked in before you.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Carolina Heirlooms Collection: The Prayer Box / The Story Keeper / The Sea Keeper's Daughters