Tracy Buchanan > Quotes

“She suddenly feels a strange kind of serenity. She refuses to live what might be her last moments in a state of hopeless panic. This is what she has learned lately, a calm acceptance of what must be. It wasn’t always like this. She once fought against her fate, twisted out of its grasp, stumbled on regardless.”
― Tracy Buchanan, The Atlas of Us

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.’ Winston Churchill.”
― Tracy Buchanan, My Sister’s Secret

“Things were so different then. Or maybe I told myself they were. Maybe they were all wrong then too.”
― Tracy Buchanan, Wall of Silence

“You can never really know people,’ I say. ‘All we see is the persona they present to people, not what’s really inside.”
― Tracy Buchanan, My Sister's Secret

“her mother told her stories of the Senoi people of Malaysia, who believe each person has a ‘partner’ tree, a specific tree that they ‘bond’ with. This could go on through the generations, her mother told her, with trunks growing from the roots of an original tree, providing new trees for generations to bond with. She would take Melissa’s small hand and place it against this old oak. ‘This is our tree,’ she would say. ‘We belong to it. It belongs to us.’ It was her mother’s favourite topic, the healing properties of the forest, both physical and spiritual.”
― Tracy Buchanan, Wall of Silence

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.’ Winston Churchill”
― Tracy Buchanan, My Sister's Secret

“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth,” ’ Ajay quotes again. ‘ “Not going all the way and not starting.” You’ve started. Now you must go all the way.”
― Tracy Buchanan, My Sister's Secret

“In life we loved you dearly. In death we love you still. In our hearts you hold a place No one else will ever fill.’ Unknown”
― Tracy Buchanan, Wall of Silence

“She’d overheard her mum once describing tough times as like trying to walk up a muddy hill, doing your best to make progress, but you just kept slipping down, grabbing clumps of mud as you did and making it even harder until, in the end, you just slid down, down, down.”
― Tracy Buchanan, Wall of Silence

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
― Tracy Buchanan, My Sister's Secret

“Life is just a roller coaster of shit and we need to hold on tight as we ride it.”
― Tracy Buchanan, Wall of Silence

“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.”
― Tracy Buchanan, My Sister’s Secret

“her mum once describing tough times as like trying to walk up a muddy hill, doing your best to make progress, but you just kept slipping down, grabbing clumps of mud as you did and making it even harder until, in the end, you just slid down, down, down.”
― Tracy Buchanan, Wall of Silence

“We’ll fix things like we have before.”
― Tracy Buchanan, Wall of Silence

“photographer were more than teenage sweethearts.”
― Tracy Buchanan, My Sister’s Secret

“Emotional blockages are often caused by deep-seated issues from the past. You need to cleanse yourself. Talking is good.”
― Tracy Buchanan, My Sister's Secret

“that voice was trampled down by her maternal instinct to protect . . . and also by her trust in her children. For them to do something like this, they must have had a reason, a bloody good one too. ‘Patrick”
― Tracy Buchanan, Wall of Silence

“there are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth – not going all the way and not starting”.”
― Tracy Buchanan, My Sister's Secret

“there are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth – not going all the way and not starting”.’ She looks at me, her dark eyes sinking into mine.”
― Tracy Buchanan, My Sister's Secret

“there are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth –not going all the way and not starting”.’ She looks at me, her dark eyes sinking into mine. ‘You have started. But will you go all the way?”
― Tracy Buchanan, My Sister's Secret

“Claire ran outside, bare feet sinking into the dust, and wrapped her arms around Holly, feeling like her heart was breaking into a million pieces seeing her like that. ‘What’s”
― Tracy Buchanan, The Lost Mother

“I look down at his face. He’s so white, so quiet. Is this really happening?”
― Tracy Buchanan, Wall of Silence

“up?”
― Tracy Buchanan, Wall of Silence

“Outside, the trees whispered to her, leaves rustling.”
― Tracy Buchanan, Wall of Silence

“Stay,’ she whispered, staring up at Claire through her tear-drenched eyelashes. So”
― Tracy Buchanan, The Lost Mother

“A voice that said if one of the kids had hurt their own dad, then surely they needed to be punished. Or, more importantly, surely they needed to be looked after by professionals? But”
― Tracy Buchanan, Wall of Silence