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

“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