These Silent Woods Quotes

“The thing about grace is that you don’t deserve it. You can’t earn it. You can only accept it. Or not.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods

“Because if your own child, the person for whom you’ve sacrificed everything, for whom you’ve broken laws as well as your own personal sense of boundaries, has lost confidence in you, and in turn, in themselves and the world at large, then what’s the point of any of it?”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods

“Spin into regretting and wishing and remembering, and it's a vortex, that type of thinking. It'll suck you right down and you have to kick and claw your way back. Better to stay in the present.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:13.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods

“That’s the nice thing about books. You can experience all different people and all sorts of places through them. All in the safety and comfort of your own home.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods

“It had been there, hadn't it? Something blooming between the two of us. A closeness. A possibility. And what had I done? Pulled away.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods

“becoming a parent—it makes something inside of you bloom and deepen. You love as you haven’t loved before.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods

“The thing about grace is that you don't deserve it. You can't earn it. You can only accept it. Or not.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods

“The thing is, me and Judge had never gotten along, and here's why. He always saw things in black-and-white, which is maybe what judges are supposed to do. Me, I saw things how they really are: not black-and-white but a hundred shades inbetween.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods

“It’ll get better, Finch. Right now the sadness is all there is. Maybe it feels like there’s something so heavy pulling at you that you’ll sink right down into the earth and never feel light again. But you will, in time. I promise.” She wipes her eyes and then asks, her voice shaking, “How long? How long does it take?” Scotland shakes his head. “I can’t say, Finch. Wish I could. It sort of differs from person to person. But time will tell. Most likely, you’ll just realize one day that you don’t feel as sad as you did the day before. And the day after that, you’ll be a little better, and so on. I’m guessing it’ll never fully go away, but it gets better.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods

“Consider how much has happened. How a life can veer and stretch and retract and shatter. How it feels in this moment, as though things could crumble yet again with just the slightest alteration. Tenuous, this life. Nothing sure at all.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods

“It is no respecter of persons, war. Even if it doesn’t damage your body, it damages your soul.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods

“I’ve always believed that if something was meant to happen, you’d have a second chance at it. But never have I been so bold as to believe in a third or even a fourth chance. Almost like the world was trying to hand you something good after all it had dealt you your whole life was heartache, like it had changed its position on who you were and what you could have. Call it what you will: karma or good luck or maybe something more. Grace.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods

“Let it suffice for me to say this: sometimes bad things happen and you’re unprepared and you make choices that seem good to you at the time, and then you look back and wish there were things you could undo, but you can’t, and that’s that.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods

“Here we go again: People spilling their secrets to me. My confessional curse.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods

“now the sadness is all there is. Maybe it feels like there’s something so heavy pulling at you that you’ll sink right down into the earth and never feel light again. But you will”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods

“Most likely, you’ll just realize one day that you don’t feel as sad as you did the day before. And the day after that, you’ll be a little better, and so on. I’m guessing it’ll never fully go away, but it gets better.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods

“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death,’” Finch says. Whitman. Believe me, I love Whitman, but this is unbearably morbid from the mouth of a little kid. “Susanna, you were brave and beautiful and you gave us eggs.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods

“Devotions by Mary Oliver”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods

“The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods

“The Bear by Andrew Krivak”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods

“What It’s Like to Be a Bird by David Allen Sibley”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods

“Raft of Stars by Andrew”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods

“I am larger, better than I thought, I did not know I held so much goodness. —WALT WHITMAN”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods

“there is a word for such unmerited favor. That word is “grace.” The thing about grace is that you don’t deserve it. You can’t earn it. You can only accept it. Or not.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods

“Dollhouses. Libraries. School lunches on those melamine trays. Funnel cakes and Ferris wheels. Swimming pools: the smell of chlorine in your hair, those white chairs that hue with mildew. Saturday-morning cartoons. Riding a school bus. Telephones: the comfort of hearing someone’s voice who is far away. Airplanes, the miracle of flight. The ocean. Crushes. Sleepovers with friends. Back-to-school shopping. Playing dress-up. Getting a driver’s license. Bowling alleys. Ice cream, hand-dipped. Sharing secrets with a best friend. Proms. Field trips. Movie theaters. Walmart.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods

“A dream, maybe. Memory. Both have brought me their share of grief.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods

“Like a bird that wanders from its nest Is a man who wanders from his place. —PROVERBS 27:8”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods

“But now I see that if we had to lose her, we were lucky to have lost her when we did.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods

“This place—it has made me whole. Well, as whole as I will ever be, after what I saw. After what I did.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods