Looking for True Quotes

“I'm convinced most adults don't listen to half of what they say.”
― Tricia Springstubb, Looking for True

“Like an engine. Like an engine that sputtered out, but always started up again. An engine of joy, that's what a dog was.”
― Tricia Springstubb, Looking for True

“Gazing into True's troubled eyes, Gladys knew the dog had an emptiness inside, too, a wordless place aching to be filled with light and warmth.”
― Tricia Springstubb, Looking for True

“People can knock you down, mister, but it's your own fault if you don't get back up. You stay down, you've got nobody to blame but your own sorry self.”
― Tricia Springstubb, Looking for True

“You couldn't make someone trust. It took time. They had to find their own way to it.”
― Tricia Springstubb, Looking for True

“Mama said people who went to the clinic were trying. They deserved respect, and the ones who didn't quit, who couldn't, deserved compassion.”
― Tricia Springstubb, Looking for True

“He was like a tree. The underground part, the roots and rootlets you couldn't see, grew as wide and deep as the above ground part grew tall.”
― Tricia Springstubb, Looking for True

“Babies and dogs- they had no words. They depended on you to figure out what they needed, then to help them get it.”
― Tricia Springstubb, Looking for True

“When you were little, you forgot stuff. It slid away, like scenery out a car window.”
― Tricia Springstubb, Looking for True

“Words. There was a word for everything that existed. That was so comforting. Once you could name something, you owned it, in a way. You possessed a kind of power over it. Whatever that thing was, it couldn't confuse or scare you, not once you knew its definition.”
― Tricia Springstubb, Looking for True

“You'd never guess how many Cheerios were in a single box till a toddler dumped them all out.”
― Tricia Springstubb, Looking for True