Helen Frost > Quotes

“Who I am remains to be seen— and I alone intend to be the one to see it.”
― Helen Frost, Crossing Stones

“Maybe you won't rock a cradle, Muriel. Some women seem to prefer to rock the boat.”
― Helen Frost, Crossing Stones

“A story Dad used to tell me floats up in my mind: Once there was a beautiful tree, and its leaves all fell to the ground. The tree looked up— nothing between it and the sky but darkness. The tree was cold. It didn’t know new leaves would grow back … The story had a happy ending, sort of—the tree finds out that the leaves it lost become part of the new ones.”
― Helen Frost, Hidden

“Grief/ gathered kindling. Fear struck the flint./ Anger fans the flames.”
― Helen Frost, Salt: A Story of Friendship in a Time of War