Chip St. Clair > Quotes

“Of all this world's beauty and miracles, brilliance and simplicity-of all nature's graces-children are truly the most remarkable.”
― Chip St. Clair, The Butterfly Garden: Surviving Childhood on the Run with One of America's Most Wanted

“Reality rarely changes; only our perspective of it. The means to change our surroundings depends on our own ability to shift perspectives.”
― Chip St. Clair

“Reality rarely changes; only does our perspective of it. The means to change our surroundings depends on our own ability to shift perspectives.”
― Chip St. Clair, The Butterfly Garden: Surviving Childhood on the Run with One of America's Most Wanted

“To give ourselves over to introspection is to build our own private cocoon.”
― Chip St. Clair

“I often think of life as a great darkened room with a mammoth-sized tapestry fastened to a stone wall. I believe true peace can be achieved not in viewing the whole tapestry, but in accepting without bitterness those portions we have been afforded the luxury to see.”
― Chip St. Clair, The Butterfly Garden: Surviving Childhood on the Run with One of America's Most Wanted

“We must not be afraid to reveal the rainbow buried deep within us, to spread our wings and help make the world flourish.”
― Chip St. Clair

“I couldn’t remember when the abuse began, nor could I remember life without it. It seemed as if I was all of a sudden there, like going to sleep and being dropped right in the middle of a nightmare. You never analyze how you got there; you just try to make it through. That’s what I did every day; I just tried to survive.”
― Chip St. Clair, The Butterfly Garden: Surviving Childhood on the Run with One of America's Most Wanted