Under a Gilded Moon Quotes

“It’s part of the role mountains play in our lives. To make us feel small. Humbled.”
― Joy Jordan-Lake, Under a Gilded Moon

“Bunch a buildings that outgrowed the sky.”
― Joy Jordan-Lake, Under a Gilded Moon

“Speak less than thou knowest.”
― Joy Jordan-Lake, Under a Gilded Moon

“Here were the pained and hopeful voices of people who knew despair was life and life was despair—and grace was there for the taking.”
― Joy Jordan-Lake, Under a Gilded Moon

“Some days, and this was one, she felt as if bitterness were turning her insides to something like pine knots and sparks, just seconds away from exploding.”
― Joy Jordan-Lake, Under a Gilded Moon

“But Kerry allowed her first thought, bitter as ginger root, to go where most first thoughts should go: unsaid. Skimmed off to leave something kinder beneath.”
― Joy Jordan-Lake, Under a Gilded Moon

“The twins didn’t need to be infected with her resentment. Because resentment, she knew, once under the skin, festers. And spreads.”
― Joy Jordan-Lake, Under a Gilded Moon

“Whereas books, once read, become fully a part of us.”
― Joy Jordan-Lake, Under a Gilded Moon

“cry.”
― Joy Jordan-Lake, Under a Gilded Moon

“others”
― Joy Jordan-Lake, Under a Gilded Moon

“Maybe, she thought, grown-up life was not so much finding your perfect place in the world, but aching for all the faraway places and people you loved—and learning to look at right where you are now, as Rema would say, through a long eyepiece of grateful.”
― Joy Jordan-Lake, Under a Gilded Moon

“Britches,” John Cabot murmured. To Vanderbilt, he said in a low voice, “It’s fascinating—the connections of their speech with Elizabethan England, Scotland, and Ireland, as well as Africa, significantly. Their speech, the construction of their homes, their methods of farming, their musical instruments, all of it hardly evolved from earlier eras across oceans. Like a time capsule here in the hollows of the Blue Ridge.”
― Joy Jordan-Lake, Under a Gilded Moon

“Reckon none of us live past thirteen without something we wish we’d lived better.”
― Joy Jordan-Lake, Under a Gilded Moon

“If the meek could inherit the earth, maybe the kind could capture the truth.”
― Joy Jordan-Lake, Under a Gilded Moon