Elaine Hussey Quotes

#1. When you've lost everything, you can walk through hell and not even feel the heat.

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#2. Sometimes the only way to remain strong is to hole up with your best friend and try to forget you are standing on a stick of dynamite with enemies lined up, itching to light the fuse.

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#3. No, Mama. The sweetest hallelujah will be when Billie can walk in the front door of any place she pleases, and nobody will tell her she doesn't belong.

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#4. Trouble has set up housekeeping with me, and I can't get rid of it.

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#5. Now she understood how you can copyedit your own life in order to delete the hurtful truth.

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#6. Sometimes something as simple as a phone call can snap you like a twig, break you into sharp halves so that you can't even feel your own heartbeat.

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#7. Nobody is going to notice Billie. People like us are invisible.

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#8. Sometimes the only thing you can do is forget about your problems and just keep moving forward.

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#9. To live abundantly, you have to race toward the future with arms and heart wide open. You have to risk everything and let the universe take care of the details

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#10. From the looks of it, he spent a lot of time outdoors and liked to be prepared, both big pluses in Billie's book.

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#11. They walked off down the hall in the direction of a sign that said Colored Waiting Room. Billie guessed white folks didn't have to wait.

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#12. She gave thanks for the grace that pours down when you least expect it-and wasn't that just another name for love?

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