One Summer in Savannah Quotes

“Forgiveness, I’ve learned, is like a door. You can open yourself up to it or close yourself off from it at any time. We can’t rewrite history or change the outcome. Life is a series of choices. And we live in and with those choices we make.”
― Terah Shelton Harris, One Summer in Savannah

“Love is never complicated. The circumstances are but never the love.”
― Terah Shelton Harris, One Summer in Savannah

“Sometimes the worst thing that happens to us turns out to be the best thing”
― Terah Shelton Harris, One Summer in Savannah

“withholding forgiveness can also cause more harm than good. It can tighten its grip on you and keep you bound to the person who hurt you.”
― Terah Shelton Harris, One Summer in Savannah

“When all is done, say not my day is o’er And that thro’ night I seek a dimmer shore: Say rather that my morn has just begun,— I greet the dawn and not a setting sun.”
― Terah Shelton Harris, One Summer in Savannah

“Trauma doesn’t punch a clock, but you can set your watch by it. It works overtime most of the time. But it can be smothered like a whisper in a storm. That’s”
― Terah Shelton Harris, One Summer in Savannah

“But I challenge you to define forgiveness for yourself. Because forgiveness is for you, and you deserve to be free.”
― Terah Shelton Harris, One Summer in Savannah

“forgiveness…is like a door. You can open yourself up to it or close yourself off from it at any time.” Forgiveness can be a powerful tool. It can loosen the knots we often tie ourselves. It can bandage up wounds, large and small. It can heal traumas, visible and invisible. But withholding forgiveness can also cause more harm than good. It can tighten its grip on you and keep you bound to the person who hurt you.”
― Terah Shelton Harris, One Summer in Savannah

“define forgiveness for yourself. Because forgiveness is for you, and you deserve to be free.”
― Terah Shelton Harris, One Summer in Savannah

“Back then”
― Terah Shelton Harris, One Summer in Savannah

“inquest”
― Terah Shelton Harris, One Summer in Savannah

“and that my past would not be a third wheel in my relationships.”
― Terah Shelton Harris, One Summer in Savannah

“Does being present on earth make it your favorite planet?" "Oh absolutely! Most people say Saturn because of it's rings, or Jupiter due to it's size. But Earth" I sigh. "This is where the dreamers are.”
― Terah Shelton Harris, One Summer in Savannah

“It is up to us to give reason and purpose to events that would otherwise be meaningless and arbitrary.”
― Terah Shelton Harris, One Summer in Savannah

“In order to understand the past, I need to be present. In order to be present, I need to forgive him.”
― Terah Shelton Harris, One Summer in Savannah

“Trauma doesn’t punch a clock, but you can set your watch by it. It works overtime most of the time. But it can be smothered like a whisper in a storm.”
― Terah Shelton Harris, One Summer in Savannah

“As a girl, I had been happiest in the water, floating among the reeds, the water lapping over my body, the sky in its vastness above me. The air tasting like salt and sunshine, like freedom. Back then, it didn't cost much to be free, just a strawberry Charms Blow Pop and the belief that you could conquer the world.”
― Terah Shelton Harris, One Summer in Savannah

“I don’t know if she’ll have me because of my family, the circumstances. But my intentions are honorable.”
― Terah Shelton Harris, One Summer in Savannah

“POEMS “Song of the Open Road”—Walt Whitman “The Tyger”—William Blake “I Thought of You”—Sara Teasdale “Sonnet 140”—William Shakespeare “A Clear Midnight”—Walt Whitman “Something Left Undone”—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “A Prayer for My Daughter”—William Butler Yeats “My Little March Girl”—Paul Laurence Dunbar “The Mountain Sat Upon the Plain”—Emily Dickinson “The Song of Wandering Aengus”—William Butler Yeats “Jabberwocky”—Lewis Carroll “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”—Robert Frost “Continent’s End”—Robinson Jeffers “Forgiveness”—George MacDonald “O Me! O Life!”—Walt Whitman “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”—Robert Herrick “In Memoriam A.H.H.”—Alfred Lord Tennyson “i like my body when it is with your”—E. E. Cummings “A Psalm of Life”—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”—William Butler Yeats “Three Marching Songs”—William Butler Yeats “Song of Myself”—Walt Whitman “in the rain”—E. E. Cummings “When All Is Done”—Paul Laurence Dunbar “The Wanderings of Oisin”—William Butler Yeats “The Cloud-Islands”—Clark Ashton Smith “love is more thicker than forget”—E. E. Cummings “Hymn to the North Star”—William Cullen Bryant “Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun”—Walt Whitman “The Young Man’s Song”—William Butler Yeats “If”—Rudyard Kipling “Character of the Happy Warrior”—William Wordsworth”
― Terah Shelton Harris, One Summer in Savannah

“Sometimes our dreams are manifestations of what our heart wants.”
― Terah Shelton Harris, One Summer in Savannah

“growing to love her. And yet, now, I’m in awe of her and all that she is. I can honestly say that no one has helped me understand love and all its fullness like she has.”
― Terah Shelton Harris, One Summer in Savannah

“Then it happened. One day—I can’t remember when—I looked into her eyes, and just like that, I was hooked. And for eight years, I kept my promise by protecting and”
― Terah Shelton Harris, One Summer in Savannah

“It was hard to see her without remembering how she got here. Nothing prepared me for becoming a mother, her mother, the mother of a daughter conceived from rape.”
― Terah Shelton Harris, One Summer in Savannah

“instead of watching him die, we would help him live.”
― Terah Shelton Harris, One Summer in Savannah

“When all is done, and my last word is said, And ye who loved me murmur, “He is dead,” Let no one weep, for fear that I should know, And sorrow too that ye should sorrow so. When all is done and in the oozing clay, Ye lay this cast-off hull of mine away, Pray not for me, for, after long despair, The quiet of the grave will be a prayer.”
― Terah Shelton Harris, One Summer in Savannah

“complicated. The circumstances are but never the love.”
― Terah Shelton Harris, One Summer in Savannah

“Actually, particles work somewhat similarly to magnets. They can be light-years separated, but as long as they were entangled at one time, and nothing has interfered with them in the interim, changing something about one particle affects the other one instantly. They are connected, even at the other ends of the universe, intimately connected, across time and space”
― Terah Shelton Harris, One Summer in Savannah

“Forgiveness, I’ve learned, is like a door. You can open yourself up to it or close yourself off from it at any time. We can’t rewrite history or change the outcome. Life is a series of choices. And we live in and with those choices we make. Alana takes a few steps inside, her tiny body swallowed up by the vastness of the room, and says, “Are you my dad?”
― Terah Shelton Harris, One Summer in Savannah

“forgiveness…is like a door. You can open yourself up to it or close yourself off from it at any time.” Forgiveness can be a powerful tool. It can loosen the knots we often”
― Terah Shelton Harris, One Summer in Savannah

“Forgiveness is like a door. You can open yourself up to it or close yourself off from it at any time. We can't rewrite history or change the outcome. Life is a series of choices and we live in and with those choices we make.”
― Terah Shelton Harris, One Summer in Savannah