Surviving Savannah Quotes

“We are most our true selves when life and death walk hand in hand. When crisis comes, and tragedy explodes, our true character comes to the fore.”
― Patti Callahan, Surviving Savannah

“You know,” he said finally, “not everyone who survives trauma becomes a better person. The idea that surviving brings everyone to a new and better place is a lie told by people who need the world to make sense.”
― Patti Callahan, Surviving Savannah

“The idea that surviving brings everyone to a new and better place is a lie told by people who need the world to make sense.”
― Patti Callahan, Surviving Savannah

“The life we live is the life we choose with every decision of the heart, soul and mind. What do we do with our survival? Now what?”
― Patti Callahan, Surviving Savannah

“How will we survive the surviving?”
― Patti Callahan, Surviving Savannah

“I never again found a man who made me want to leave my ship for his dinghy.”
― Patti Callahan, Surviving Savannah

“I love you to the deepest sea and back.”
― Patti Callahan, Surviving Savannah

“I know this: we're made of stories, legends and myths just as we are made of water, atoms and flesh.”
― Patti Callahan, Surviving Savannah

“I'd discovered that Savannah couldn't be fully explained to those who hadn't visited it. Photos, no matter how glorious, and movies, no matter how accurate, couldn't convey the way Savannah felt - seductive and lazy, busy and slow, modern and ancient. Savannah was a contradiction and a complicated melody that could only be known by walking through it, absorbing its every sensual detail.”
― Patti Callahan, Surviving Savannah

“But no one, even if they believe they have, moves past the past. It follows; it shadows; it breathes quietly in the dark corners.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, Surviving Savannah

“If one wants to move beyond the past, one must not delve into the past,”
― Patti Callahan Henry, Surviving Savannah

“she spent most of her life trying not to do exactly what she wanted to do.”
― Patti Callahan, Surviving Savannah

“there is no use in lamenting what might have been, for we are here and there is a life after horror. There is tragedy behind, and it trails us and walks alongside us, but still there is the great mystery of life after.”
― Patti Callahan, Surviving Savannah

“Some secrets stayed hidden. I knew that. The unknown couldn’t always be discovered just because I wanted it.”
― Patti Callahan, Surviving Savannah

“Nothing is safe, but that’s got to be okay. Nothing is certain and the constant trying to make things certain only causes more heartache.”
― Patti Callahan, Surviving Savannah

“You can’t dive to the bottom of the sea or look at the stars or hear a story like you just told me and not believe there is some hidden and unseen force we don’t understand.”
― Patti Callahan, Surviving Savannah

“yes, there is something special about surviving. But after that, it’s up to you. This Red Devil, he squandered his survival. We don’t. We won’t.”
― Patti Callahan, Surviving Savannah

“... the past echoes into our present time if only we turn our ear toward its stories.”
― Patti Callahan, Surviving Savannah

“We were, all of us, hidden in different ways, under different waves. The broken parts, the remnants of our own explosions, kept secret from others.”
― Patti Callahan, Surviving Savannah

“I will hold on for you.”
― Patti Callahan, Surviving Savannah

“Here we are in this world and seventy-five percent of it is covered in water and we only know a slice of what it's all about.”
― Patti Callahan, Surviving Savannah

“The idea that surviving brings everyone to a new and better place is a lie told by people who need the world to make sense.’ For”
― Patti Callahan Henry, Surviving Savannah

“As Pat Conroy once said, “‘Tell me a story’ are the most powerful words in the English language.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, Surviving Savannah

“The life we live is the life we choose with every decision of the heart, soul and mind.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, Surviving Savannah

“would hope they would not ignore the devastation of slavery, or cast it aside, not pretend it never existed or didn’t have its echoes.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, Surviving Savannah

“You and I both know there’s a difference between prejudice and obliviousness but sometimes it can have the same result.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, Surviving Savannah

“we are the ones who make meaning out of the tragedies.” “I don’t know how. Tragedy—it can come from anywhere at any time. How do we go through life knowing that? How did we ever not know it? And yet we pretend we’re safe. It’s absurd.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, Surviving Savannah

“Family had always possessed a gravitational force field, part love, part obligation, mixed with the usual petty irritations and the bonds of an intimately shared history.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, Surviving Savannah

“not everyone who survives trauma becomes a better person. The idea that surviving brings everyone to a new and better place is a lie told by people who need the world to make sense.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, Surviving Savannah

“the heart has reason that reason knows nothing of,”
― Patti Callahan Henry, Surviving Savannah