The Halo Effect Quotes

“How would the world change, Father Gervase wondered, if one could look for and see goodness, whatever human guise it was cloaked in, if one could see that potential in everyone and acknowledge not only the piousness of the saints but the complications of their past, the potential in sinners before they became saints.”
― Anne D. LeClaire, The Halo Effect

“Feelings aren’t right or wrong. They just are.”
― Anne D. LeClaire, The Halo Effect

“The cure for everything is salt water—sweat, tears, or the sea.”
― Anne D. LeClaire, The Halo Effect

“But of course if we knew what awaited—the losses and disappointments and grief that are inevitable, the unthinkable things we will prove capable of—the knowledge would paralyze us. The”
― Anne D. LeClaire, The Halo Effect

“Or reading poetry. Now there was a job that should exist. To spend one’s days in the company of Blake and Dickinson, Yeats and Hopkins, Auden and Milton. To fill one’s mind with their wisdom, the music of their words. Today”
― Anne D. LeClaire, The Halo Effect

“I wondered if in even the strongest of marriages there always existed a fault line and it just took one major, earth-shattering disaster to reveal it.”
― Anne D. LeClaire, The Halo Effect

“In the field of memory, land mines were buried everywhere, easily tripped.”
― Anne D. LeClaire, The Halo Effect

“That was the cruelty of memory. The way it could ambush you.”
― Anne D. LeClaire, The Halo Effect

“Every day is ordinary. Until it isn’t. On this early-October morning, the townspeople in Port Fortune wake before dawn to an ordinary day with its ordinary sounds: the groaning of”
― Anne D. LeClaire, The Halo Effect

“Our spiritual journey is—or ought to be—a deepening realization of the possibility of sainthood in all of us.”
― Anne D. LeClaire, The Halo Effect

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Anne D. LeClaire, The Halo Effect

“Once I would not have believed this, but now I understand too well that there is in all of us, even the most pacific and composed, an enormous capacity for rage, asleep maybe but present nonetheless, waiting for the single thing that will uncage it. A”
― Anne D. LeClaire, The Halo Effect

“That was the cruelty of memory. The way it could ambush you. Take you out at the knees.”
― Anne D. LeClaire, The Halo Effect

“What are you afraid of? The more I struggled and resisted, the stronger the ghost echoes grew and the more a possibility took shape in my mind just as the patio took shape beneath my hands. The saints were ordinary people. You do paint saints. Wherever I went these words of Father Gervase’s stayed with me, a ghost staking out territory in my head as certainly as I had staked out the space for the bricks I now”
― Anne D. LeClaire, The Halo Effect

“I couldn’t understand the mindless acceptance of dogma, an acceptance people were quick to call faith.”
― Anne D. LeClaire, The Halo Effect