The Edge of Over There Quotes

“Hope can last a long time, longer than we expect or imagine. Even after you think it's gone, the smallest of things can bring it back.”
― Shawn Smucker, The Edge of Over There

“Have you ever stepped out of your life for days at a time to listen to one single story? Maybe read a book without stopping? When you come back out of it, when you return to life from the midst of that story, you are a transformed being. You will never be quite the same again, no matter how hard you try to return to your old self. Stories will do that if we let them. They'll work their way inside, to the deepest parts and they'll live there, and they'll change us.”
― Shawn Smucker, The Edge of Over There

“If you don't know where to go or what to do, go as far as you are able to and do what you can. The rest will happen.”
― Shawn Smucker, The Edge of Over There

“Every single thing in the world is there for someone, for their perfect use.”
― Shawn Smucker, The Edge of Over There

“Fear always comes with a door, a door that leads straight through.”
― Shawn Smucker, The Edge of Over There

“(T)here is grace to be found in everything, even in what first appears to be pure pain.”
― Shawn Smucker, The Edge of Over There

“Time... moves constantly, not linear but swirling like a tornado, picking up things from here and there, past and future...”
― Shawn Smucker, The Edge of Over There