Beth Kephart Quotes

#1. I know another New York Times bestselling author - Beth Kephart - she self-published one of her books.

Caroline Leavitt

#2. Osama bin Laden was living in that compound with three wives. It's like he was Newt Gingrich.

David Letterman

#3. How do you know when an apology is true - when it means something, or can change something, or will last outside the moment?

Beth Kephart

#4. Nothing erodes [a mother's love]. It is not sand on a beach. It is the nuclear heart of things-hard as the rock of this earth.

Beth Kephart

#5. Beauty is the worst kind of lie.

Beth Kephart

#6. Continued persistence overcomes almost all resistance.

Mark Victor Hansen

#7. Nature is not the number-one mystery, I've learned. It's the heart that takes top honors.

Beth Kephart

#8. Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.

Beth Kephart

#9. I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.

Manti Te'o

#10. The unformed is not worse than the over-formed. The former is nothing; the latter is mere appearance. Real form presupposes real life.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#11. I believe friends enclose us, like a pair of parentheses. Each one knows us differently, each sustains us in a different way.

Beth Kephart

#12. I love you,' she said. She nestled closer, her hand moving up the back of his neck. The wind lifted. 'Don't kill me,' he said. 'I'm not going to,' she said.

Max Barry

#13. Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.

Beth Kephart

#14. We grow too old to lose old friends ...

Beth Kephart

#15. Don't do things to point out your weaknesses, do things to point out your strength.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#16. Maybe all that matters is that they love each other, still, the way people who have known each other will always love each other.

Beth Kephart

#17. Here's another change I've noticed: The dark is more than the sun dropping off, more than the moon and the stars. It's what you can't see that you hope you will see, what hasn't been that might be.

Beth Kephart

#18. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.

Abraham Lincoln

#19. Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of person.

Beth Kephart

#20. I'd have given any- thing to know how Mom and Dad were, but you can't ask your parents such questions. You have to wait for them to tell you what it is that will happen next ...

Beth Kephart

#21. I'd thought he was stars and then I'd thought he was a fox. I had thought I'd been alone, but I hadn't.

Beth Kephart

#22. Words are the weights which hold our history in place.

Beth Kephart

#23. You obsess (but of course you obsess) until the joy is gone from that thing you'd loved, until your fury overwhelms your passion, until you no longer know how to sit with your back against a tree and write poetry that no one will ever see.

Beth Kephart

#24. It is not crazy to think that powerful people do some pretty horrible things. And maybe they get out of hand. Maybe it just gets away from them. It snowballs.

Janeane Garofalo

#25. His client needs him, he says. Needs him? But isn't he needed at home?

Beth Kephart

#26. Were there language, I'd be my own lone letter.

Beth Kephart

#27. The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands.

Beth Kephart

#28. You know how a river goes on and on? That's my love for you.

Beth Kephart

#29. Imagine music gushing down the hollow places in your bones, and making you liquid, and giving you speed. Imagine music turning your body into a song.

Beth Kephart

#30. You aren't happy," Estela says.
"I can't be happy," I say.
"Look at me, Kenzie."
"I'm looking at you, Estela."
"Do you know your own heart?"
"I don't know anything."
"Go," she says, "and think. And don't come back until you know.

Beth Kephart

#31. In high school, my desire for friendship far outweighed my talent for it.

Beth Kephart