Honeysuckle Season Quotes

“Logic and emotion rarely speak the same language.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“There are no secrets that time doesn’t ultimately reveal,”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“Sometimes there’s no choosing between right and wrong. Sometimes you have to pick the best of the worst solutions and hope for the best. Miss Olivia did that, and she’s the reason we’re all standing here today.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“As Libby left the mercantile store, she realized she was good at starting things. So far, nothing she had undertaken had lasted more than five years, including her marriage, her nursing career, and her attempts at motherhood. How long would her interest in the mercantile store or Bluestone last?”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“They were rich, and even though her mother said rich folks put their pants on just like the poor, Sadie knew different. They lived by their own set of rules.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“as if she saw all her regrets reflected back in the murky panes.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“She always felt calmer behind the lens, knowing it created a barrier between her and the world. When people looked at the camera lens, they became self-aware and ceased to notice her.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“She seems like a fine woman, Elaine.” Elaine knotted her brow. “She is. I can’t claim her, but I’m proud.” “Why can’t you claim her?” “I didn’t raise her.” “But she has your DNA in her. That’s a big part of who she is.” “The McKenzies did a great job with her.” “And yet they couldn’t have done anything without you.” She raised her chin. “I know. I just have so much regret.” “You need to call her back.” “What if I tell Libby the truth, and she ends up hating me?” “Either way, you’ll have done right by her, Elaine.” “She’s had such a terrible few years with the miscarriages and the divorce. What if I’m simply a bridge too far?” “Libby has a right to know.” “Ted, I gave her away. How can she forgive that?” “You”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“There are no secrets that time doesn’t ultimately reveal,” she said,”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“Cancer has a way of stripping away whatever doesn’t matter.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“She had survived almost nine hours in the rubble, her body”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“even a broken clock is right twice a day.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“That was what age did for the lucky. As life stripped away youth and vitality, it also softened some of the regrets and perhaps exchanged a few devils for angels.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“She and denial had met up a few times before, so when it strolled in, it sadly felt like an old friend.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself. May Sarton, poet”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“As world events burrowed their roots deeper into her innocence, she desperately tried to replenish the soil, believing she could still sow the seeds of new dreams and hopes. But the earth had continued to shift and erode until finally she had stumbled, and her rose-colored glasses had fallen away forever.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“This was Libby’s denial stage regarding her father’s illness. She and denial had met up a few times before, so when it strolled in, it sadly felt like an old friend.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“Cancer has a way of stripping away whatever doesn’t matter. I wouldn’t be here now if it weren’t for the treatment.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“Clear, precise, it was a kind of old-world penmanship that had lost favor with the modern world.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“Something in Sadie snapped. All God’s good reason took one look at her and then took off running, leaving her alone with the devil sitting on her shoulder.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“There had been no agenda, no sense of angst, and no feeling of failure.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“I’m not defending what he did. It was terrible. But in his mind, he was performing a necessary service.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“My grandfather, like other medical professionals of the time, believed they were doing a service to women by sterilizing them.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“I like you, Sam."
"But we just met last night," he said with a puzzled expression.
"Sometimes it works that way.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“Chaos can be draining when you're a kid.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“Ah, the rest. It can fill up a great deal of time."

She spoke as if she understood the term amounted to an emotional quagmire that sapped creativity and brainpower.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“That was the black magic of a strong cup of coffee. It restored souls and mended all wounds.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“Bless your heart.” In the South, that phrase basically translated into “I pity your ass.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season