Sarah McCoy Quotes

#1. The marks on our lives are like music notes on the page
they sing a song.

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#2. Her father had proven to them all: when a beating heart stopped, there was no black or white, only blood-red.

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#3. I guess when you're happy where you are, the grass don't seem so green on the other side of the fence. Maybe it never was.

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#4. Though their goals had been righteous, their means of anarchy would not go unpunished.

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#5. She felt a budding loneliness, and with it came the familiar emptiness that once threatened to swallow her whole.

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#6. We all tell little lies about ourselves, Our past, our presents. We think some of them are minuscule, unimportant, And others, large and incriminating. But they are the same. Only God Has enough of the story to judge our souls.

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#7. Elsie caught herself staring at it with a kind of craving that transcended hunger. She knew every cherry dimple, every beautiful chocolate curl. For her, the cake was a reminder of all that had been and a pledge of all that she'd have again.

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#8. Should we bury our memory barbs to keep them from piercing budding hearts? No doubt they will encounter their own tragedies in due time. Or should we warn our children that the world is harsh and men can be wicked?

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#9. We can't force life to do what we want when we want it. We can't change yesterday or control tomorrow. We can only live today as best we can. And it just might turn out better than expected

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#10. So where are you headed if you're already home?" Jane smiled. "Just 'cause you're born in a place don't make it home.

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#11. That's the cruddy view from the Pacific coast this week. How's the world facing the Atlantic? Miss you. Love,

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#12. The past is a black, heavy thing. It will quietly smother our spirits if we let it. You must make peace with it and move forward.

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#13. I've never been fooled by the romantic, grand gestures. Love is all about the little things, the everyday considerations, kindnesses, and pardons.

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#14. When none of those seemed to cure her, she moved on to modern medicine: a fertility specialist, who recommended drugs to induce ovulation and daily hormone injections that made her sob over a missed green light, a cookie dropped to the floor, bow-tied pigtails on little girls. The

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#15. By the time she lay down, the darkness was a friend not a foe.

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#16. So unabashed as to make its recipient afraid - not of the girl but of a world that didn't abide such forthright joy.

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#17. Whether we're standing on the shores of the Pacific or the Atlantic, the water is the same. Love

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#18. People often miss things that don't exist
miss things that were but are not anymore.

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#19. Better she left him before he left her for someone young with a belly full of immortal possibilities.

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