The Love Story of Missy Carmichael Quotes

“Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light.”
― Beth Morrey, Saving Missy

“Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. Seneca”
― Beth Morrey, The Love Story of Missy Carmichael

“Children are so beautiful, flawless and shiny, like a chestnut newly out of its shell. Such a shame they all grow up to be abominable adults.”
― Beth Morrey, The Love Story of Missy Carmichael

“The magic doesn't stop the worst happening. The worst happens all the time, every day. And then life goes on. And you just hang on and hope that you can keep whatever crumbs and tiny white teeth are left.”
― Beth Morrey, The Love Story of Missy Carmichael

“me puse a pensar en familias y oikos, un importante concepto de la antigua Grecia. No es un concepto fácil de explicar, ya que puede significar cosas diferentes. Una casa o una vivienda, pero también sus habitantes. Casa y hogar. La parte del hogar siempre me interesó, ya que pensaba en oikos como en una especie de roca, la roca sobre la que se construía una familia. Pero ¿cuánta familia se necesita para conseguirlo? No me parecía que a Sylvie le faltara nada, mientras que mi soledad, mi vacío, era un globo aerostático que se hinchaba y me arrastraba. Pero cuando la casa había estado llena con mi marido y mis hijos, no me había dado cuenta, no había apreciado mi oikos. Es posible que nunca lo hubiera tenido. Es posible que los hilos de mi vida siempre hubieran estado sueltos, siempre fuera de mi control, esperando a escapar de mi alcance”
― Beth Morrey, La segunda vida de Missy

“Sometimes the loneliness was overpowering. Not just the immediate loneliness of living in a huge house on my own, loved ones far away, but a more abstract, galactic isolation, like a leaking boat bobbing in open water, no anchor or land in sight. I might sink, or just float farther out, and I wasn't sure which was worse.”
― Beth Morrey, The Love Story of Missy Carmichael

“Love was just love, that was all. Flawed, uneven, complicated, overlapping, but still essential”
― Beth Morrey, The Love Story of Missy Carmichael

“making beautiful things, but never seeing the beauty in them.”
― Beth Morrey, The Love Story of Missy Carmichael

“Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light.’ Pythagoras”
― Beth Morrey, Saving Missy

“She had the air of everything in life being a tremendous joke, a flippancy that made me want to kick off my shoes and talk of cabbages and kings—to be in a world where things didn’t matter so much.”
― Beth Morrey, The Love Story of Missy Carmichael

“Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.’ Seneca”
― Beth Morrey, Saving Missy