Sheri Reynolds > Quotes

“Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It just changes shape.”
― Sheri Reynolds

“Your truth may not look like mine, but that is not what matters. What matters is this: You can look at a scar and see hurt, or you can look at a scar and see healing.”
― Sheri Reynolds, A Gracious Plenty

“There's only so much room in one heart. You can fill it up with love or you can fill it with resentment. But every bit of resentment you hold takes space away from the love. And the resentment don't do no good noway, but look what love can do.”
― Sheri Reynolds, The Rapture of Canaan

“Then I wondered if that's all God ever is--somebody who loves you enough to come back from the dead to visit every now and again. Or if that's all that other people ever are--different faces of God walking around.”
― Sheri Reynolds, The Rapture of Canaan

“I felt the way I feel sometimes right before you go to sleep, when all you want to do is sleep, and then suddenly, when you're almost there, when your mind goes dizzy and it's almost like you don't have a body at all, your remember how long the night is, how you might not wake back up. And like a shock, you're sitting straight up, scared to do the thing you've done every day of your life.”
― Sheri Reynolds, The Rapture of Canaan

“Sometimes something comes along and tears your roots right out the ground, and that’s when you know you been planted too long.”
― Sheri Reynolds, A Gracious Plenty

“We choose our truths the way we choose our gods, single-sightedly, single-mindedly, no other way to feel or see or think. We lock ourselves into our ways, and click all the truths to one.

We put our truths together in pieces, but you use nails and I use glue. You mend with staples. I mend with screws. You stitch what I would bandage.

Your truth may not look like mine, but that is not what matters. What matters is this: You can look at a scar and see hurt, or you can look at a scar and see healing. Try to understand.”
― Sheri Reynolds, A Gracious Plenty

“When Constance was born, Aunt Glo named her after the dormitory she lived in at college: Constance Hall.”
― Sheri Reynolds, The Sweet In-Between

“Things aren’t bad or good. They just are.”
― Sheri Reynolds, Bitterroot Landing

“Like all lies, loves, stories, it is imperfect, but I could walk on it. I could fold it over the edge of my bed and use it for a blanket or hang it on the wall. Instead, I wrap it over my shoulders, wear it like a shield, covering myself with a tapestry of views.”
― Sheri Reynolds, The Rapture of Canaan