Patti Callahan Henry Quotes

#1. You need to take care of the root in order to heal the tree. - Gullah Proverb

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#2. I was never without a book, just in case there were empty moments to slip into a life that wasn't mine.

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#3. When you know you love someone, when you know it's finally the right time, you don't just wait around for the right words, you just say the sentences even if they're all mixed up and imperfect.

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#4. It is not about how it ends; it is about the journey. The full story. You have to know the full story to care about or know the ending.

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#5. The right thing at the wrong time is never the right thing.

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#6. And that is the choice everyone has. They can wish for what they want in their life or they can face the truth. But sometimes you cant have both.

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#7. The written word held a power she almost revered: to be able to write so as to influence the hearts and minds of other readers seemed nothing short of a miracle.

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#8. Grief wraps around people, takes them to a place they would not go otherwise.

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#9. Edges of the ocean. The water is what ties us together, yes? You at one edge, me at the other, but the same ocean, the same water.

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#10. I hope you never understand what it is to know that all you believed is wrong
sorely wrong.

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#11. Sometimes we tell our stories and sometimes our stories tell us.

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#12. Sometimes we know who we want to be and what we want to do long ... long before we know how to get there.

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#13. There are always consequences to the truth.

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#14. You'll let him talk you out of your dreams. That's what love does sometimes- talks you out of your dreams." "Not me," Katie said. "Jack would talk me into my dreams.

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#15. Unearthing the truth was akin to creating it; something new and profound appeared where it hadn't been before.

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#16. No Matter how you try to cover up smoke, it must come out.

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#17. There were some things that needed to be said even if the person you were saying them to didn't understand; words that must be released from their trapped place where their flapping to get out could cause internal damage.

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#18. Story is a way to find grace in the chaos.

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#19. I can't go back to what we had in childhood. I can't relive those times, retrace my tracks and undo what's been done. It's not like writing a book and rewriting the ending to make it happier.

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#20. Riley's smile saturated her entire face with beauty. This was the sister Maisy had left all those years ago. The sister with the full laugh and the face of an angel who was unaware of her beauty. Gone was the sister who pulled her hair back into a baseball cap.

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#21. The choices we make when we're broken, are sometimes the most awful of all our choices.

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#22. Cheating and lying aren't struggles, they're reasons to break up.

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#23. Those are the facts. It's easy to believe in facts, my dear. To believe in the story you need faith. Tell me the story as you experienced it.

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#24. A broken heart, too much cold beer, ocean waves and a willing man were never a good combination, no matter what the country songs said.

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#25. We have to know the truth about the past to discover out future.

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#26. Souls bound together can't be forever torn apart by distance and neither by death.

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#27. Let the story settle inside you. Let it move and twist around until you see what it has to say to you.

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#28. There are trials and mistakes and even wars along the path of marriage.

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#29. This is now and forever - the moment everyone must have, the moment that encompasses all other moments; now and before, now and after: all time.

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#30. Memory is a cloudy, disjointed thing - like disconnected dreams with images scattered and thrown to settle where they please.

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#31. Still, the night feels restless underneath me

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#32. This is the thing we must guard against: that others' expectations, especially our families', do not become our own.

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#33. I believe it's a miracle in life when you find people who care about and desire the same things you do, and creativity does that
brings those people together in one place.

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#34. Over time, hidden truths morph in the dark soil of deceit into something much worse.

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#35. You don't always need proof to know something.

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#36. Be careful what you believe - it is who you are.

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#37. If only it were so easy to pick up the broken pieces of life, glue them back together, and cover them with paint like nothing had ever happened.

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#38. I DID my life - one thing to do after another, always something else to do. Because you don't need a heart to DO, but you do need one to live.

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#39. Stories are always braided together - one affecting the other.

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