Finding Home Quotes

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― Denise Grover Swank, Finding Home

“You can’t be everything for everyone and still take care of yourself and your own needs, Cee-cee,” she reminded herself sternly as she began to wipe down the countertops.”
― Denise Grover Swank, Finding Home

“I’m a grown woman. We don’t get crushes. We get tricky bladders, gray hair, and a slower metabolism”
― Denise Grover Swank, Finding Home

“So if you find yourself stuck—no matter how old or young you are—you can still find your way. It’s never too late for a second act. Or third. Or however many it takes until you get it right.”
― Denise Grover Swank, Finding Home

“It wasn’t until he left the room that she flopped back against the couch and giggled like a teenage girl. So what if she had a gray hair? So what if her back got sore and she had hot flashes once in a while? She’d had a great life, but maybe things didn’t have to be the same as they’d always been for it to continue being great. Maybe it was time to grow a little. Change from a butterfly into another kind of slightly less active butterfly…with crow’s feet.”
― Denise Grover Swank, Finding Home

“It wasn’t until he left the room that she flopped back against the couch and giggled like a teenage girl. So what if she had a gray hair? So what if her back got sore and she had hot flashes once in a while? She’d had a great life, but maybe things didn’t have to be the same as they’d always been for it to continue being great.”
― Denise Grover Swank, Finding Home

“The key with wildlife especially is to take a lot of shots. You never know which moment is going to be the special one that stands out, so I click like mad,” she explained as she did just that. “This is the perfect time of day. We call it the golden hour. It refers to the two windows of time just after the sun rises and before the sun sets, when there’s this soft, beautiful, golden wash over everything…like nature’s filter, if you will.”
― Denise Grover Swank, Finding Home

“Max had realized that while she may have given her all to her office, her office didn’t give a flying fig about her. It all became glaringly obvious when she’d come down with the flu and all her boss cared about was when she was coming back to work.”
― Denise Grover Swank, Finding Home

“It’s scary, isn’t it?” she asked softly. “Getting older. It’s like, one day you’re young and cool and you’ve got your whole life ahead of you, and then all of a sudden, things start to happen. Your hands hurt when it’s cold outside or it’s about to rain. You throw your back out doing something super daring like bending down to pick up a sock. You wind up at more funerals than you do weddings…mourning more often than you celebrate. The father you thought was as tough as rawhide starts to unravel right before your”
― Denise Grover Swank, Finding Home