Midnight at the Blackbird Café Quotes

“That a person you love is never truly gone—they’re always there, whether it’s in a memory … or a dream.” Or in a heart. All of you will always be in my heart, and part of me will always be in yours. That’s a damn good legacy, if you ask me.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“For where your roots are, your heart is.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“We survive on sweet tea and complaining, plain and simple. Mostly the sweet tea, if I’m tellin’ it to you straight.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“Grief can change a person to the point where they become someone they don’t know, or even like very much.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“It was a choice. I could either keep dwelling on what had happened, letting it define me, or take the valuable—and sometimes painful—lessons I’d learned from the relationship and move on. Maybe find someone eventually who loves me the same way I do them.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“But sweetie, letting go is the only way you can fly.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“That a person you love is never truly gone—they’re always there, whether it’s in a memory … or a dream.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“Pain changed people. I couldn’t go back to the way I’d been, because I wasn’t the same person who’d left.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“You get to be my age, you start counting regrets at night instead of sheep.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“Grief was a capricious companion. Sometimes distant and aloof. Sometimes so overwhelming it was hard to think a straight thought. Its mood changed at whim, making it emotionally exhausting to keep up.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“Seems to me there’s a whole lot of people around here carrying around a heap of pain tied to the past. Might be time to start letting that go and start healing.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“Once upon a time, there was a family of Celtic women with healing hands and giving hearts, who knew the value of the earth and used its abundance to heal, to soothe, to comfort.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“You see, the bonds of love are only strengthened when someone leaves this earth, not diminished.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“healing was my calling,”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“It’s past time to stop blaming and start healing.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“You haven’t had a piece of pie yet, have you, sonny boy?”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“I’d yet to find a place that felt like home, something I wanted very much.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“The blackbirds have been here all my life. Midnight till one in the morning. They sing the prettiest songs you’ll ever hear.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“That a person you love is never truly gone—they’re always there, whether it’s in a memory … or a dream.” Or in a heart.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“It’s kind of astounding, isn’t it? How one split second can alter so many people’s lives?”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“It was a choice. I could either keep dwelling on what had happened, letting it define me, or take the valuable—and sometimes painful—lessons I’d learned from the relationship and move on. Maybe find someone eventually who loves me the same way I do them. It”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“Grief can change a person to the point where they become someone they don’t know, or even like very much. I”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“Pain changed people. I couldn't go back to the way I'd been, because I wasn't the same person who'd left.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“Sometimes people lie to protect the ones they love.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“Family was forever. For better or for worse.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“I'd always considered the crook of his arm to be the safest place in the whole world.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“As I sang the ABC’s in my head—another trick my therapist had taught me to refocus my thoughts—”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“It was a familiar pattern—Mama often kept me in the dark on important matters.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“Don’t tell him I said that. And Marcy runs the gift shop”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café

“I’d been called ma’am at least two dozen times in the past week, and despite learning the term was a southern courtesy used on any woman, it still set my teeth on edge. Unless you were geriatric, no one used 'ma’am' up north.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Café