Glory Road Quotes

“I used to know everything about you. What made you laugh, what made you upset. The way you bounced on your toes when you were excited about something." He smiled. "I knew the real you. Underneath everything you layered on yourself, I knew who you were inside." He reached out a hand, then let it drop to his side. "It's been twenty years, Jessie. I want...you. So much it hurts. That has never changed. Not since the very first day.”
― Lauren K. Denton, Glory Road

“But my mind was still on that front porch, welcoming the silence, the contentment, the exquisite pleasure of a quiet, love-filled life.”
― Lauren K. Denton, Glory Road

“I knew there was more--Mama loved to remind me of that--but Glory Road was what I knew and loved.”
― Lauren K. Denton, Glory Road

“That’s part of what I loved most about our little swatch of land out here—its permanence. It spoke of earth and time and dust and life. It was here before I arrived, and it would be here long after I was gone.”
― Lauren K. Denton, Glory Road

“I think you marry the one who, when everything else is stripped away—money, job, arguments, disagreements—he’s still the one you’d want to sit with on the porch and . . . just . . . do nothing. Or do anything.” I looked down at my fingers spread out on top of the rolling cart next to me, each nail painted a smooth, glossy mother-of-pearl. Not a speck of dirt in sight. “Pick the one who matters more than all the stuff of life.”
― Lauren K. Denton, Glory Road

“Please keep letting me in. I’m always on your side, okay? You can tell me anything and my love for you isn’t going to change. No matter what.”
― Lauren K. Denton, Glory Road

“I laughed so hard, tears ran down my nose. At some point they may have crossed over into real tears, but sometimes grief and humor mix together so tightly it’s impossible to tell them apart.”
― Lauren K. Denton, Glory Road

“When it came down to it, no amount of money or influence, kindness or spunk could protect you from death, whether the death of your other half or the death of a marriage. Love hurt when it ended, and my experience—and that of so many other people—was that love usually ended. Some way, somehow.”
― Lauren K. Denton, Glory Road

“Next to me, the house sighed and settled, the seventy-year-old thing tired and weighted with the responsibility of sheltering all our hopes and dreams.”
― Lauren K. Denton, Glory Road

“He loves me in my rhinestone blue jeans. Can you believe that? Almost seventy and making a man lose his mind over my legs in a pair of jeans. And I’m not even offended!” Jessie laughed and brushed a tear from the corner of her eye. “Take that, Gloria Steinem,” I said.”
― Lauren K. Denton, Glory Road

“Sugar, you didn’t get near enough mac and cheese. Here, have some more. It’s considered a vegetable, you know.”
― Lauren K. Denton, Glory Road

“When you get to be my age, you’ll see that the years behind you stretch on for miles, and the ones ahead seem shorter every time you think about them.”
― Lauren K. Denton, Glory Road

“Take the gifts of this hour.”
― Lauren K. Denton, Glory Road

“And you’re wrong about being a burden,” I said, my gaze on the ceiling. “You’d never be a burden to me. I’m your daughter and I love you. Taking care of you would be a privilege. An honor.”
― Lauren K. Denton, Glory Road

“Strange how the absence of something could sometimes be louder than the presence of it.”
― Lauren K. Denton, Glory Road

“But Daddy’s death changed my belief. Sure, a love may be great, but that didn’t mean it would be forever. Where before I’d thought love was what sustained you, what carried you, I now knew it didn’t last. Hurt would still come.”
― Lauren K. Denton, Glory Road

“You can’t blame a girl for wanting love and passion in her life when she grew up with a father who adored his wife, day in and day out. Who wouldn’t want that kind of love? She just went about it the wrong way.”
― Lauren K. Denton, Glory Road