Karen White > Quotes

“They say that not matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood.”
― Karen White, The Memory of Water

“I know what it is to hope and pray so hard that you're sure God will answer your prayer just so you'll stop asking.”
― Karen White, The Beach Trees

“Miles and years become suddenly invisible when you find yourself back where you started from, as if you've learned nothing and you are once again the person you once were.”
― Karen White, The Memory of Water

“Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.”
― Karen White, The Time Between

“There is how we
were before, and how we are now, and the time between is spent choosing
which doors to open, and which to close.”
― Karen White, The Time Between

“Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from a discarded shirt. And all that is left is a fading name and the shape of a nose or the color of hair. The men who write the history books will tell you the stories of battles and conquests. But the women will tell you the stories of people's hearts.”
― Karen White, The Lost Hours

“The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night.”
― Karen White, The Beach Trees

“We live, we love. These are the choices we are given, to open doors or to close them. It is all we have, and it is enough”
― Karen White, The Time Between

“Things do not always work out as we have planned, do they? Sometimes the hardest thing is not to just survive the grief, but to step around it and move on. It helps if your suitcases are not so full.”
― Karen White, The Time Between

“Jumping to conclusions is often the only exercise some people get, and is always easier than finding the patience to discover the truth.”
― Karen White, The Sound of Glass

“Every woman needs a daughter to tell her stories to. ”
― Karen White

“it wasn't the mountain ahead that wears you out, but the grain of sand in your shoe”
― Karen White, The Beach Trees

“Moving on doesn't mean forgetting.”
― Karen White, The Beach Trees

“when you lose your sails, row.”
― Karen White, The Beach Trees

“If tears could build a stairway
and memories a lane,
I'd walk back up to Heaven
and bring you home again.”
― Karen White, Pieces of the Heart

“But I think sometimes a person has to be forced underwater to see if they're going to drown or swim.”
― Karen White, The Beach Trees

“A life without rain is like the sun without shade.”
― Karen White, After the Rain

“Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim....Be patient and strong; someday this pain will be useful to you.”
― Karen White, The Lost Hours

“There are no completely good or bad people. Everybody makes mistakes, or bad choices. It's how we live with them that make us the people we are.”
― Karen White, The Time Between

“Courage isn’t about the absence of fear. Courage is doing the one thing you think you cannot do.”
― Karen White, The Sound of Glass

“Great tragedy gives us opportunities for great kindness.”
― Karen White, The Beach Trees

“Sometimes I guess you need to lose everything before you realize what's really important.”
― Karen White, The Beach Trees

“You ain’t dead yet, so you ain’t done.”
― Karen White, The Beach Trees

“Life isn't perfect. It's not supposed to be. We all make mistakes. You bash your head against the wall and you get hurt, but you walk away and make the best of it. And that's what makes it life, Brenna, not perfection. You'll never find happiness if you only expect to find a perfect life. Happiness is something we reach for while we try to learn from our disappointments.”
― Karen White, Learning to Breathe

“...Being a mother is like being a gardener of souls. You tend your children, make sure the light always touches them; you nourish them. You sow your seeds, and reap what you sow.”
― Karen White, Sea Change

“You will never be truly happy if you keep holding on to the things that make you sad.”
― Karen White, The Sound of Glass

“You have to get through the rain if you're ever going to see a rainbow.”
― Karen White, After the Rain

“Time is a funny thing. It can take some people a whole lifetime before they realize they've been playing tug-of-war all by themselves.”
― Karen White, The Time Between

“Sometimes we make decisions because it seems to be the only path visible at the moment. It's only later that we see there was more than one path, but the others were blocked from our vision at the time. That's the thing with hindsight, you see. Even if you can see it clearly, there's no going back. It's at that point we need to turn around and stare ahead and make a new life.”
― Karen White, Learning to Breathe

“It’s not only ghosts who haunt us. Our memories follow us through life, surprising us now and again when we are forced to turn around and look behind us.”
― Karen White, The Sound of Glass