Sally Page > Quotes

“when you are a child, as you don’t ever think of yourself as young. You are just you, and will take up guilt and responsibility without noticing that they are far too large for you and that they are really things an adult should be wearing.”
― Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

“Please, please, please say you like books.”
― Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

“I figured out long ago that if I listen to the few people who shout at me, I am making them more important than they are.”
― Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

“These are other people’s stories. If she does have a part to play in them she knows she is a bit part, an extra.”
― Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

“She wonders if part of storytelling is not only about sharing the good things in life but also enabling the storyteller to send the bad things out, to let them disperse like dust in the wind.”
― Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

“Perhaps some relationships blossom because they are formed at a specific time and space in your life?”
― Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

“some write, the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, as it has all the letters in the alphabet in it.”
― Sally Page, The Book of Beginnings

“Those people, the quiet people, seem to have more important things to say.”
― Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

“she wonders if the story of life is a tragic comedy or a comic tragedy.”
― Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

“Every man should leave a story better than he found it’,”
― Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

“Perhaps guilt is like a disease. You can have it without knowing you do.”
― Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

“sher”
― Sally Page, The Book of Beginnings

“She thinks maybe people talk to her because she believes in their stories.”
― Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

“While there’s life, there’s hope’.”
― Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

“I think it's in people stories that you discover the best of what we can be.”
― Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

“asks herself, if a heart can be broken, can it be put back together … perhaps not the same as before but so it is no longer the shattered wreck it was?”
― Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

“This is all a warm-up for the main event. Janice has not asked Mrs. B about Becky’s story, although she dearly wants to hear it. Nor has Mrs. B broached the subject, despite the fact that Janice is pretty certain she wants to tell it. It has become a game of chicken. Mrs. B is the first to break, which surprises Janice. But at ninety-two, maybe she feels she hasn’t got time for any more of this shit.”
― Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

“Perhaps he wants them to emigrate? He could go on his own. She could stay here. She knows it’s too much to hope for, but now she needs to find out. Mike”
― Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

“Always awake by 6am, up by 6.30am at the latest. Comes from years in the army. On exercise we trained our men the same way. Bowel movement at 7am and on with the day.” He”
― Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

“She wants to ask if he’s having an affair, but doesn’t know how to say it without sounding hopeful.”
― Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

“there is extraordinary strength and goodness within normal, everyday people and, because of this, there is always hope.”
― Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

“Never judge a book by the cover”
― Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

“I figured out long ago that if I listen to the few people who shout at me, I'm making them more important than they are. What they say will stay with me, upset me, and those loud voices would go on and on. Even with the shouting had stopped. So, instead, I listen very carefully for the quiet voices, which is most people. The people who teach a perfect lesson with nobody knowing. [...] Those people, the quiet people, seem to have more important things to say.”
― Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

“I don't think guilt asks for permission to come in. I don't think it knocks and waits politely on the mat.”
― Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

“In those precious, glorious moments when her hips swayed in rhythm and her arms snuck free from her sides, she really didn’t care what anyone else in the room, or even in the world, thought of her. When she dances she is a lioness.”
― Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

“I don’t think guilt asks permission to come in. I don’t think it knocks and waits politely on the mat.”
― Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

“When people told him he was a fool, he asked, how would he know he was reaching the people in real need if he didn’t help them all?”
― Sally Page, The Book of Beginnings

“I have known the silence of the stars, and of the sea. And the silence of the city when it pauses.”
― Sally Page, The Book of Beginnings

“Never tell your story to a deaf man.”
― Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

“woman”
― Sally Page, The Secrets of Flowers