Graceland, at Last Quotes

“The fireflies come out to fill the forest just as the stars come out to fill the skies.”
― Margaret Renkl, Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South

“To love a person is always to love in spite of the faults that intimacy reveals, and so it is with a place.”
― Margaret Renkl, Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South

“Americans are now more likely to be shot to death than to die in a car accident.”
― Margaret Renkl, Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South

“hate is sometimes a carapace for pain and who haven’t given up hope of turning hatred into love.”
― Margaret Renkl, Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South

“But it’s also true that things can be “better” and still be shamefully, irredeemably bad.”
― Margaret Renkl, Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South

“And my friend the mole, oh how I love my old friend the mole. In these days that grow ever darker as fears gather and autumn comes on, I remember again and again how much we all share with this soft, solitary creature trundling through invisible tunnels in the dark, hungry and blind but working so hard to move forward all the same.”
― Margaret Renkl, Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South

“Christian conservatives are widely known for legislating sexuality and gender issues, but religious people who focus on the social justice message of the Gospels live here, too. They join Black Lives Matter protests; they pray outside prisons on execution days; they defend the rights of their LGBTQ neighbors; they work to protect the environment; they welcome immigrants. They are rarely in the news, so some of these columns describe the work their faith—my own faith—calls us to do.”
― Margaret Renkl, Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South

“There’s a great danger in hope, as Roxane Gay has pointed out: “Hope allows us to leave what is possible in the hands of others,” she writes in The New York Times. “When we hope, we have no control over what may come to pass. We put all our trust and energy into the whims of fate. We abdicate responsibility. We allow ourselves to be complacent.”
― Renkl Margaret, Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South