Rachael Hanel > Quotes

“Stories weren't just make believe, all Dr. Seuss and Mother Goose. I saw a circle: first life, then death. Spring, summer, fall, winter. Blue sky and storms and quilts of cold clouds occupy the same space but at different times. Memories and stories help you rebuild. Things most precious to you may be gone, lost to the wicked wind, but you remember what had been, and you move on.”
― Rachael Hanel, We'll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down: Memoir of a Gravedigger's Daughter

“Mom was the midwife who delivered stories to me.”
― Rachael Hanel, We'll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down: Memoir of a Gravedigger's Daughter

“survived.”
― Rachael Hanel, Can You Survive an Earthquake?: An Interactive Survival Adventure

“Church comforts the lonely, those who've lost, those who grieve. It is a weekly ritual that never changes, never goes away. You can go to mass anywhere around the world -- Waseca, North Dakota, Poland, Ireland -- and the only difference would be the language. Church provides us something to cling to, the rope line tied from the barn to the house during a blizzard. No matter what swirls around you, you cannot become lost.”
― Rachael Hanel, We'll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down: Memoir of a Gravedigger's Daughter