The Lost Hours Quotes

“Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from a discarded shirt. And all that is left is a fading name and the shape of a nose or the color of hair. The men who write the history books will tell you the stories of battles and conquests. But the women will tell you the stories of people's hearts.”
― Karen White, The Lost Hours

“Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim....Be patient and strong; someday this pain will be useful to you.”
― Karen White, The Lost Hours

“I think that her life was about finding the extraordinary in every day. It was how she could sit in her garden on a rainy day and see the beauty in it. It's what got her out of bed every morning.”
― Karen White, The Lost Hours

“I wish I could change things for you, make it so this all doesn't have to hurt so much. But that's the point, isn't it? That one day we'll find that the pain we suffered was worth it.”
― Karen White, The Lost Hours

“She thought of the horse with his scars and wondered if having them so visible wasn't preferable to the hidden kind where nobody knew how to avoid the parts that still hurt.”
― Karen White, The Lost Hours

“Where there is life, there is hope.”
― Karen White, The Lost Hours

“I reached for Helen's hand, and felt her squeeze back, accepting that I would understand more than most the missing part of the human heart rendered by the absence of a mother and father.”
― Karen White, The Lost Hours

“Maybe with Sara's accident he had finally begun to see that life continued after a fall and that the hands that reached to pull you out didn't have to be your own.”
― Karen White, The Lost Hours

“The golden moments īn the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; The angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. —George Eliot”
― Karen White, The Lost Hours

“Life is like that, I suppose: always slapping you in the face when you least expect it.”
― Karen White, The Lost Hours

“Be patient and strong; someday this pain will be useful to you.”
― Karen White, The Lost Hours