Steena Holmes > Quotes

“How do you say goodbye to someone you barely know?”
― Steena Holmes, The Forgotten Ones

“A mother’s love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking. —Helen Rice”
― Steena Holmes, The Memory Child

“Our minds are a mystery. We all handle tragedy differently.”
― Steena Holmes, The Memory Child

“We live in the middle of freaking nowhere in the state of Minnesota.”
― Steena Holmes, The Sister Under the Stairs

“I guess in the end...you start thinking about the beginning.”
― Steena Holmes, The Forgotten Ones

“That had been five years ago. He thought about the Ferris wheel. Going up so high you could see straight across town and halfway across the lake. His stomach turned at the thought of going up so high. Seems the older he got, the more he liked his feet on the ground.”
― Steena Holmes, Finding Emma

“Whoa. I didn’t see that coming.”
― Steena Holmes, Lies We Tell Ourselves

“Except no one can ever understand cancer. I learned that with Gertie. Cancer is a nasty disease.”
― Steena Holmes, The Forgotten Ones

“THE SISTER”
― Steena Holmes, The Sister Under the Stairs

“The most beautiful of flowers grow out of the darkest of moments.”
― Steena Holmes, Stillwater Tides

“Life could get crazy, work could get busy, but coming home and being in this room . . . it makes everything disappear.”
― Steena Holmes, The Forgotten Ones

“Children are the real and true victims in this world. They have no choices, no opportunities, no way to discern who they are meant for and who to avoid. If there is a God, they’re ignorant of the value God has placed on their small heads.”
― Steena Holmes, The Patient

“Omission doesn't always mean there's a lie involved. It means you weren't ready to know the truth. That's all.”
― Steena Holmes, The Forgotten Ones

“There was a time I knew Mom would always be there, protecting me, taking care of me. And then I began to protect her, take care of her.
There was a period in between when we were almost equals.
That's never a good place for a child to be with a parent.”
― Steena Holmes, The Forgotten Ones

“Every story holds a kernel of truth. Some more, some less. It's all in the telling.”
― Steena Holmes, The Forgotten Ones

“it hurt, the truth was always worth it.”
― Steena Holmes, The Patient

“Therapy is just a means to healing. It’s not the cure.”
― Steena Holmes, The Patient

“I suck on the cherry Halls in my mouth, a bad habit of mine when I’m anxious. My partner back home got me to switch to the sugar-free ones and they’re not too bad. Not as good, but they’ll do. I’d dropped the habit about a year ago but recently picked it back up.”
― Steena Holmes, The Sister Under the Stairs

“When you say you’re trying, it means you need an excuse. How about leaving that excuse behind and just doing it?”
― Steena Holmes, The Sister Under the Stairs

“When life hands you lemons, choose chocolate.”
― Steena Holmes, Finding Emma

“To make the decision to always be in love. Love isn’t a feeling. It’s a commitment. You can fall in and out of lust, but you have to decide to fall out of love.”
― Steena Holmes, Saving Abby

“Out of your mouth, your heart will speak,”
― Steena Holmes, Engaged to a Serial Killer

“The moments before a book is opened, before a page is turned and the words leap out—those moments are my favorite.”
― Steena Holmes, The Patient

“She romanticizes life and looks for the good in everyone, while I look behind the words to search for what's not being said.”
― Steena Holmes, The Forgotten Ones

“God had to make men first — he knew we'd kill them if we'd been made first. I used to ask her why and she'd only shrug her shoulder. One time she whispered “God knew we really didn't need them and it wouldn't take long for us to figure that out.” Some days it's true.”
― Steena Holmes, Dottie's Memories

“You never know with kids. You can train them all you want, but when they grow old enough, you just gotta hope and pray they heard you through all the noise.”
― Steena Holmes, The Memory Child

“I’d learned that simply existing wasn’t enough for me. In order to live life the way it was meant to be experienced, I had to push past my own boundaries and embrace every adventure that came my way.”
― Steena Holmes, The Patient

“We all wear masks, hide our true selves, present the versions of ourselves that we need to be in order to be accepted.”
― Steena Holmes, The Patient

“Doctor-patient confidentiality stated she was protected from crimes of her past if she confessed them to me. Unless she admitted she was about to carry out a crime, her secret was safe with me.”
― Steena Holmes, The Patient

“It was love at first sight. His beautiful, melted chocolate eyes held mine moments before he kissed me with his tiny tongue. He was only ten weeks old but I’d already fallen under his spell.”
― Steena Holmes, Engaged to a Serial Killer