All the Lost Places Quotes

“This is a tapestry of every sunset and sunrise …It reminds me that if the sun comes up, the day has beautiful purpose. For God made it so, yes?”
― Amanda Dykes, All the Lost Places

“You don't look at a book and see only paper and ink. You seem to - to somehow feel it. The heart who wrote it, the lives in the pictures taking on heartbeats so that you can look at the faces of the people in one book and recognize in them the souls from another.”
― Amanda Dykes, All the Lost Places

“It is a gift - time is what we have been given. Whatever else our lot - whatever our legacy, our history, our burdens to bear - we have all been given time.”
― Amanda Dykes, All the Lost Places

“Friendship, he began to see, was something of a miracle. Built in the smallest of stitches, like Valentina’s lace. Each stitch a word, a look, the offering of a hand to help on unsteady ground. Small and almost imperceptible, these stitches, but all together … they wove a garment that wrapped a heart.”
― Amanda Dykes, All the Lost Places

“And understanding, I had learned, came more often through listening than only by seeing and drawing conclusions.”
― Amanda Dykes, All the Lost Places

“In this land of tapestries and ropes and lace, there were no threads more intricately twined than their hearts. As if for all of time, they had been stitching and weaving toward each other until here—now— they met. Joined. Chosen, in an eternal breath, this tender stronghold, a knot pulled fast, to last forever.”
― Amanda Dykes, All the Lost Places

“What is loyalty, then? Gold itself, or poison set to decay a soul, a republic, a world? It depends entirely. Upon the holder of it, upon where their heart is set.”
― Amanda Dykes, All the Lost Places

“For I was beginning to see that the longer one spent in this city, the less it was a place forgotten by time, but kept with care, a living testament to perseverance and redemption.”
― Amanda Dykes, All the Lost Places

“Once upon the dawn of time, there was water.

Before the stars, before the Maker set life into earth, life into lungs, beast or man to roam . . . there was water.”
― Amanda Dykes, All the Lost Places

“The hundreds of bridges in Venice, they are not the only bridges here. … The artisans are living bridges.”
― Amanda Dykes, All the Lost Places