Beth Morrey > Quotes

“Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light.”
― Beth Morrey, Saving Missy

“Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. Seneca”
― Beth Morrey, The Love Story of Missy Carmichael

“Children are so beautiful, flawless and shiny, like a chestnut newly out of its shell. Such a shame they all grow up to be abominable adults.”
― Beth Morrey, The Love Story of Missy Carmichael

“The magic doesn't stop the worst happening. The worst happens all the time, every day. And then life goes on. And you just hang on and hope that you can keep whatever crumbs and tiny white teeth are left.”
― Beth Morrey, The Love Story of Missy Carmichael

“I really wanted to tell someone about that night, that perfect night, when everything went right. Not Sheba or Marni, because my interactions with them were always laced with sarcasm, loaded with studied nonchalance. Someone who would really listen, squeeze my hand tight and say, 'It sounds like he's really into you!' but follow it up with 'You will be careful, won't you?' There was no one to say it, which was maybe why I wasn't careful at all, why I thought the golden glow would last, and cocoon me. So I didn't shade my eyes, checking for pitfalls. I just blundered into the light, not looking where I was going, dazzled and entirely blind.”
― Beth Morrey, Delphine Jones Takes a Chance

“Love was just love, that was all. Flawed, uneven, complicated, overlapping, but still essential”
― Beth Morrey, The Love Story of Missy Carmichael

“Sometimes the loneliness was overpowering. Not just the immediate loneliness of living in a huge house on my own, loved ones far away, but a more abstract, galactic isolation, like a leaking boat bobbing in open water, no anchor or land in sight. I might sink, or just float farther out, and I wasn't sure which was worse.”
― Beth Morrey, The Love Story of Missy Carmichael

“Edging past her into a small, cluttered kitchen, I was greeted by a fluffy black-and-white cat who wove around my ankles, purring.
'That's Aphra,' said Letty, nudging her with the stick. 'She belongs to my daughter but seems to prefer me. Cats are terrible sodomites. No, I don't mean sodomites, I mean parasites. Would you like some tea?”
― Beth Morrey, Delphine Jones Takes a Chance

“making beautiful things, but never seeing the beauty in them.”
― Beth Morrey, The Love Story of Missy Carmichael

“She had the air of everything in life being a tremendous joke, a flippancy that made me want to kick off my shoes and talk of cabbages and kings—to be in a world where things didn’t matter so much.”
― Beth Morrey, The Love Story of Missy Carmichael

“Maybe you couldn't interfere with people's choices, but you could make it easier for them to make the right ones.”
― Beth Morrey, Delphine Jones Takes a Chance

“What are we but a series of evolutions?' she said gaily, spearing another shell. 'Each one a better incarnation. One day you'll be a person who eats snails.”
― Beth Morrey, Delphine Jones Takes a Chance

“Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light.’ Pythagoras”
― Beth Morrey, Saving Missy

“Who were we to tell Roz to stick with teaching - that she was already living her best life?

But it was dismal to imagine the Brownswood kids going to school and not being taught by Mrs. Gill anymore. Mrs. Gill, who sent Em home every week with essays covered in glowing comments, which in turn made Em glow. Mrs. Gill, who'd bullied and enlightened me, restored my confidence and made me feel that anything was possible. Teachers like her and Sarah Boleyn were precious, should be feted and put in magazines like Hollywood stars. Maybe then they wouldn't want to do other things.”
― Beth Morrey, Delphine Jones Takes a Chance

“Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.’ Seneca”
― Beth Morrey, Saving Missy