Regina Felty > Quotes

“Yes, I understand it now, Ruth! Sometimes we make choices because we love someone and their needs are of greater value in our eyes than our own. “Where you go I will go…” you said. “Your people shall be my people…”
― Regina Felty, Mazie

“someone cared enough to tend to the things that meant nothing to them… but everything to her.”
― Regina Felty, Mazie

“But my mother believed in me, and when your mother believes in you, anything is possible.”
― Regina Felty, While You Walked By

“The Magnolia River drifted lazily under the morning sun as if waking from a long night of slumber. Brian stood on its bank and watched the ripples sway at its center, listening to the gurgles as the water licked against the rocks a few feet from where he stood. The river was as unobtrusive and unhurried as the town itself.”
― Regina Felty, Mazie

“You could walk right on by this place and never know the stories sheltered behind its walls, Ben thought. Kind of like my own life. People see an old man who looks like he hasn’t got a care in the world outside of the latest sports news and weather channel updates. If they could only see the regrets this old man carries and how long it’s taken me to find the courage to make things right.”
― Regina Felty, While You Walked By

“You get one shot, Brian. Don’t look for happiness only on sunny days, but find joy even during the stormy ones. That’s when you’ll need it most.”
― Regina Felty, Mazie

“The scene that opened up in front of Aden was serene, unencumbered with the sharp angles and suffocating closeness of tall concrete buildings. In the city, everything was hard: bars and chains on doors, metal poles and signs, heavy steel cars lining the streets, reinforced walls—even the faces of the people who passed you on the street.”
― Regina Felty, While You Walked By

“You can run from your demons, but they will always find you. In fact, they were never gone at all, but remained lurking in the shadows, nipping at your heels, until you could no longer ignore them. What brings us all to this understanding—this impasse—is unique for each of us. It may be the loss of a job, a sudden illness, a tough-love confrontation from a lifelong friend, or even your nemesis. It is something that stops you in your tracks and causes you to take inventory of your life and its direction. It may even be a perfect stranger who steps on the scene at just the right time.”
― Regina Felty, Mazie

“Don’t look for happiness only on sunny days, but find joy even during the stormy ones. That’s when you’ll need it most.”
― Regina Felty, Mazie

“lifelong friend, or even your nemesis.”
― Regina Felty, Mazie

“Did it really take me all these years to get this? What have I missed in trying to cling to the past when I still had a future in front of me?”
― Regina Felty, Mazie

“The constant background noise of car horns, barking dogs, music pulsating out of apartment windows—they had all blended together in a symphony of chaos that was the trademark of city life. Then there was the unique smell of the city. The air was permeated with a persistent odor of unwashed bodies and greasy food mixed with pungent drifts of vehicle exhaust and sewage. One couldn’t discount the more pleasant aromas that also drifted over the city of fresh-brewed coffee from a cafe or the sweet smell of relish from the corner hot dog stands. But”
― Regina Felty, While You Walked By

“It wasn’t that he was a hermit or harbored bitterness against humankind, he just preferred his own company these days. There was plenty of time to explore relationships when he was ready for them. And, right now, he wasn’t.”
― Regina Felty, Mazie

“Solving other people’s “problems.” That’s where you are wrong, old girl. What you consider their problems may not be things that bother them at all.”
― Regina Felty, Mazie

“No warning. No last farewell. A flaming fire that had warmed everyone around him, reduced to a puff of smoke blown away in a moment of time. It was a cruel act of fate to pluck first one and then the other from her life, leaving her grasping the memories like a shipwreck survivor clinging to a piece of driftwood on a stormy sea.”
― Regina Felty, Mazie

“You probably think that the old crow was just sitting there waiting for someone to drop part of their sandwich, so he could swoop down and snatch it. But he wasn’t. That old crow was admiring daddies pushing their kids on the swings and moms cuddling babies on the park bench nearby. Then, when the sun started to lower in the sky and all the children were gathered to make their way back home, the old crow would remember all the good things he’d seen that day and would hop across his branch and snuggle down deep in his hollow for the night, all the happy images melding into his dreams.”
― Regina Felty, While You Walked By