Mazie Quotes

“Yes, I understand it now, Ruth! Sometimes we make choices because we love someone and their needs are of greater value in our eyes than our own. “Where you go I will go…” you said. “Your people shall be my people…”
― Regina Felty, Mazie

“You get one shot, Brian. Don’t look for happiness only on sunny days, but find joy even during the stormy ones. That’s when you’ll need it most.”
― Regina Felty, Mazie

“It wasn’t that he was a hermit or harbored bitterness against humankind, he just preferred his own company these days. There was plenty of time to explore relationships when he was ready for them. And, right now, he wasn’t.”
― Regina Felty, Mazie

“The Magnolia River drifted lazily under the morning sun as if waking from a long night of slumber. Brian stood on its bank and watched the ripples sway at its center, listening to the gurgles as the water licked against the rocks a few feet from where he stood. The river was as unobtrusive and unhurried as the town itself.”
― Regina Felty, Mazie

“lifelong friend, or even your nemesis.”
― Regina Felty, Mazie

“Don’t look for happiness only on sunny days, but find joy even during the stormy ones. That’s when you’ll need it most.”
― Regina Felty, Mazie

“someone cared enough to tend to the things that meant nothing to them… but everything to her.”
― Regina Felty, Mazie

“Did it really take me all these years to get this? What have I missed in trying to cling to the past when I still had a future in front of me?”
― Regina Felty, Mazie

“Solving other people’s “problems.” That’s where you are wrong, old girl. What you consider their problems may not be things that bother them at all.”
― Regina Felty, Mazie

“No warning. No last farewell. A flaming fire that had warmed everyone around him, reduced to a puff of smoke blown away in a moment of time. It was a cruel act of fate to pluck first one and then the other from her life, leaving her grasping the memories like a shipwreck survivor clinging to a piece of driftwood on a stormy sea.”
― Regina Felty, Mazie

“You can run from your demons, but they will always find you. In fact, they were never gone at all, but remained lurking in the shadows, nipping at your heels, until you could no longer ignore them. What brings us all to this understanding—this impasse—is unique for each of us. It may be the loss of a job, a sudden illness, a tough-love confrontation from a lifelong friend, or even your nemesis. It is something that stops you in your tracks and causes you to take inventory of your life and its direction. It may even be a perfect stranger who steps on the scene at just the right time.”
― Regina Felty, Mazie