Top 26 Cynthia Rylant Quotes

#1. God turns clouds inside out to make fluffy beds for the dogs in Dog Heaven, and when they are tired from running and barking and eating ham-sandwich biscuits, the dogs find a cloud bed for sleeping. God watches over each one of them. And there are no bad dreams.

Cynthia Rylant

Cynthia Rylant Quotes #18935
#2. [May] understood people and she let them be whatever way they needed to be. She had faith in every single person she ever met, and this never failed her, for nobody ever disappointed May. Seems people knew she saw the very best of them, and they'd turn that side to her to give her a better look.

Cynthia Rylant

Cynthia Rylant Quotes #39907
#3. And, finally, I know, too. That throwing away this mess doesn't mean I'm giving something up. Or losing something I can't get back. It's just that there are too many pieces and too much dust. I'm just ready for something whole.
- Pete Cassidy

Cynthia Rylant

Cynthia Rylant Quotes #73632
#4. But he finally saw
how pain caused
one of two things:
A reverence for life.
Or killing.
Both grew from the same seed.

Cynthia Rylant

Cynthia Rylant Quotes #73799
#5. A remarkable fact of nature is that problems almost always get solved just when they are meant to. And those who can help solve the problems almost always show up at the right time.

Cynthia Rylant

Cynthia Rylant Quotes #81109
#6. Writing stories has given me the power to change things I could not change as a child. I can make boys into doctors. I can make fathers stop drinking. I can make mothers stay.

Cynthia Rylant

Cynthia Rylant Quotes #98555
#7. But I know now that you can't expect anything from anybody. If somebody loves you, it's because he wants to. And it's never because it's what he's supposed to do.
- Pete Cassidy

Cynthia Rylant

Cynthia Rylant Quotes #110351
#8. That's got to be at least one of the benefits of heaven - never having to act normal again.

Cynthia Rylant

Cynthia Rylant Quotes #183077
#9. I learned to write from authors. I didn't know any, but I read their books.

Cynthia Rylant

Cynthia Rylant Quotes #209318
#10. When the wicked want to bring down the innocent, they aim for a loving heart.

Cynthia Rylant

Cynthia Rylant Quotes #328045
#11. We wanted a family so bad, all of us. And we just grabbed each another and made us one. Simple as that.

Cynthia Rylant

Cynthia Rylant Quotes #340503
#12. But what is it that makes a person want to stay here on this earth anyway, and go on suffering the most awful pain just for the sake of getting to stay? I used to think it was because people fear death. But now I think it is because people can't bear saying goodbye.

Cynthia Rylant

Cynthia Rylant Quotes #671635
#13. I love being a writer because I want to leave something here on earth to make it better, prettier, stronger.

Cynthia Rylant

Cynthia Rylant Quotes #697101
#14. In November, the smell of food is different. It is an orange smell. A squash and pumpkin smell. It tastes like cinnamon and can fill up a house in the morning, can pull everyone from bed in a fog. Food is better in November than any other time of the year.

Cynthia Rylant

Cynthia Rylant Quotes #750205
#15. In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers. They know it is time to be still.

Cynthia Rylant

Cynthia Rylant Quotes #778333
#16. It is when we are most lost that we sometimes find our truest friends.

Cynthia Rylant

Cynthia Rylant Quotes #878541
#17. One morning she happened upon a bit of cloth decorated with pictures of little red squirrels carrying small, brown,nutsacks,and she nearly fainted away.

Cynthia Rylant

Cynthia Rylant Quotes #979536
#18. But those with an evil heart seem to have a talent for destroying anything beautiful which is about to bloom.

Cynthia Rylant

Cynthia Rylant Quotes #1117681
#19. It is a grace that comes, unexpected, after tragedy- this reminder that most hearts are good.

Cynthia Rylant

Cynthia Rylant Quotes #1353656
#20. In November, at winter's gate, the stars are brittle. The sun is a sometime friend. And the world has tucked her children in, with a kiss on their heads, till spring.

Cynthia Rylant

Cynthia Rylant Quotes #1372933
#21. The war was just a mile or so away, and I wondered at my simply walking to it, as I might walk to the market or to school. Today I will walk to the war.

Cynthia Rylant

Cynthia Rylant Quotes #1380249
#22. In November, the earth is growing quiet. It is making its bed, a winter bed for flowers and small creatures. The bed is white and silent, and much life can hide beneath its blankets.

Cynthia Rylant

Cynthia Rylant Quotes #1436185
#23. Every person is able to add beauty, whether by growing flowers, or singing, or cooking luscious meals, or raising sweet pets. Every part of life can be art.

Cynthia Rylant

Cynthia Rylant Quotes #1638288
#24. Drop some of them bricks you keep hauling around with you. Life just ain't that heavy.

Cynthia Rylant

Cynthia Rylant Quotes #1692595
#25. I want to do something important in my life, and I think that adding beauty to the world with books ... really is important.

Cynthia Rylant

Cynthia Rylant Quotes #1736626
#26. It is odd how we sometimes deny ourselves the very pleasure we have longed for and which is finally within our reach.

Cynthia Rylant

Cynthia Rylant Quotes #1779382

Famous Authors

Popular Topics

Scroll to Top