Lisa Ann Sandell Quotes

#1. So, what's up with you and Damian?" Helena asks.
"What do you mean?" I can feel the hear of a blush coloring on my cheeks. I can't ever seem to not show how I feel. It's becoming pretty annoying.

Lisa Ann Sandell

#2. Still, I look down, and the grass is so green, I cannot understand how it does not wither and die with sorrow.

~Song of the Sparrow

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#3. I shuffle along, letting the current pull me, and i have the sense that I am like a rat caught in a maze of tunnels, moving endlessly toward some promise of ... of what? Light? Life? Cheese?

Lisa Ann Sandell

#4. Child, think not of those things, those dark possibilities. Your father and brothers are here with you today. Lavain will tug at your braids, Tirry will sing you songs, and your father will see his wife's beauty in you. Savor their love today. And it will never leave you.

Lisa Ann Sandell

#5. Love is a tempestuous mistress.
And none of us shall ever master her.

Lisa Ann Sandell

#6. What place does a woman have here, in the realm of men?

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#7. The birch trees loom ahead like a brotherhood of ghosts.

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#8. As I say the words, I realize how true they are. And maybe that's the trick to getting through it, through life: realizing that everybody, including ourselves, is lugging around some kind of screwed-up baggage. Maybe we are put here to help each other carry the loads.

Lisa Ann Sandell

#9. Nate liked Death. Death was in the clothes that he wore and the music he listened to. He would wrap himself in a black sweater and ask Death to ride along with him in his Honda Civic.

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#10. And at that moment, a lilting melody lifts to the moon as a single sparrow sings.

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#11. I've got this image in my head of how I want my life to look, and I have absolutely no idea how to get there. And I'm so scared that I'll make some wrong decision - just one - and everything will get messed up and go wrong -for good.

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#12. I watch her as she leaves. Everything about her is fluid as a river. Her messy hair, her xylophone voice, the strokes of her paintbrush. Even her camouflage army jacket hangs loose, flowing like ribbons.

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#13. My sparrow, she flickers and wakes and sings and sings.

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#14. The song is languid and speaks of love and loneliness and loss. Why does love seem to go with the sad things?

Lisa Ann Sandell