Christina Clancy > Quotes

“Sherri’s mother once told her that when you’re young you have a good days and bad days, but when you get older you have good years and bad years.”
― Christina Clancy, Shoulder Season

“Days are long, years are short, as Ed liked to say. He wished he could stop time.”
― Christina Clancy

“All the lives she could possibly lead dangled in her future, still deliciously unknown to her. What made her youthfulness so deliriously exciting was the cornucopia of possibilities that awaited her, although she was blissfully unaware that most would necessarily go unrealized.”
― Christina Clancy, Shoulder Season

“If you’re not at home in your heart,” she said, “then you’re not at home anywhere.”
― Christina Clancy, The Snowbirds: A Novel

“Even Dick Bacon, the legendary Milwaukee man who sat on the beach in a reflective tinfoil contraption to tan himself all year long, was still there in his Speedo, catching rays in the cold.”
― Christina Clancy, The Second Home

“She thought of something her mother told her near the end of her life: 'it might be hard to be responsible for other people, but it's even harder to be responsible for yourself. You'll see.”
― Christina Clancy, Shoulder Season

“That’s a lesson she carried from her Bunny days—you never let on when you’re exhausted or angry.”
― Christina Clancy, Shoulder Season