Boo Walker > Quotes

“At some point in your life you have to decide to throw the anchor and accept that your home isn’t perfect, but it’s home. And your friends and lovers aren’t perfect either, but they’re what you’ve got, and you damn well better love them.”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain

“We all needed that selfless person, someone willing to jump into our own darkness and drag us out of it—even when they get nothing in return.”
― Boo Walker, An Unfinished Story

“Now,” Joan said, “we’re going to practice some visualization. If you can create something in your mind, you can create it in your physical world as well. I want you to picture yourself on this day a year from now. Picture where you are. Where you want to be. Picture what you’re wearing. All the way to your socks and shoes. What are you doing? Who are you with? What do you smell? What do you feel like? Every detail. That’s you.”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain

“Speaking with her eyes on the ceiling, she”
― Boo Walker, The Stars Don't Lie

“It’s hard to cram “logical” and “bureaucracy” into one sentence.”
― Boo Walker, Lowcountry Punch

“If you cared about someone enough, their happiness trumped your own.”
― Boo Walker, An Unfinished Story

“but the years had shed the warming blanket of youth,”
― Boo Walker, The Singing Trees

“Growing and making wine was the purest of art forms: to work the land all year—to work with the land all year—to bleed and sweat and toil through the seasons, to bring in the harvest and guide the juice all the way to a bottle, and to share that bottle with the world. To share the fruit of a time and place. To help people smile.”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain

“There’s a book I had to read in college that I’ve just picked up again called Psycho-Cybernetics. It’s all about having the right image of yourself, the correct one. The one that you truly are, the one that wants to be successful. If you see that true image of yourself, you will grow into it. If you see a negative image, that’s what you’ll grow into. It’s time you accept that you’re made for greatness, and you need to put on your seatbelt because your life is going to be one wild ride. One amazing storybook ride.”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain

“It’s about living for those who don’t have the option to anymore. It’s about dancing for those who don’t have legs. It’s our duty to whomever we call the creator and to our husbands whom we’ve lost.”
― Boo Walker, An Unfinished Story

“Those people who walk into your life for a little while, fill your cup, and then they’re gone.”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain Rising

“Whitaker decided that the day baby boomers discovered emojis had to be the beginning of the end. How”
― Boo Walker, An Unfinished Story

“The more people you loved, the more goodbyes you had to endure.”
― Boo Walker, The Singing Trees

“Looking back on it, it was really cool to see a man step outside of his comfort zone to help another. It’s in times like those that true character shines through.”
― Boo Walker, Lowcountry Punch

“The closer you get to people, the harder it is to love them. But you have to love them anyway. You have to work at it. And you can’t walk away from them. That’s what love is. As”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain

“You couldn’t tell kids who’ve been hurt you love them; you had to show them.”
― Boo Walker, An Unfinished Story

“You can string together the most beautiful sentences in the world, but without a story you have nothing.”
― Boo Walker, An Unfinished Story

“Uncle Hank taught him above all else was the importance of justice, how a good cop must live by it. Bending rules was one thing, especially if it was in the name of getting at the truth. Searching a premises without a warrant, telling a few lies in an interview, or even pocketing some weed during a bust were acceptable breaches, but there was no gray area when it came to justice.”
― Boo Walker, The Secrets of Good People

“When things go wrong, why must we sleep? So we can’t think?”
― Boo Walker, The Secrets of Good People

“Each day runs into the next, like it does for the soldier, the jobless, the homeless, or the musician.”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain

“It often seems as if there were an impersonal karma within a family, which passes on from parents to children. It has always seemed to me that I had to . . . complete, or perhaps continue, things which previous ages had left unfinished.”
― Boo Walker, An Echo in Time

“Less worrying about the seat belt and more enjoying the”
― Boo Walker, A Spanish Sunrise

“You’re trying to fix all these things to reach a point of healing, but the healing is already taking place by you being on the journey.”
― Boo Walker, An Echo in Time

“She was so good at stopping to notice life. At any given moment, she’d say, “Do you smell that?” Or, “Do you hear that?” Or, “Do you see that?” They’d go for a walk and she’d see a dog she’d never seen before and be totally captivated. She could watch this dog forever, it seemed. Or she could pick a flower and hold it in her hands for an hour. She found magic in the littlest things: the sound of her chimes on the deck blowing in the wind, the shapes of the clouds, the shimmer of the morning.”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain

“People connected to you, even those long gone from this earth, are still a part of you.”
― Boo Walker, An Echo in Time

“This was the kind of music that required a seat belt for the soul,”
― Boo Walker, A Spanish Sunrise

“He might not have it all figured out, but he had his hand on the tail of something grand.”
― Boo Walker, A Spanish Sunrise

“The last two days have been . . . it’s like I’ve finally turned the final corner. That’s how it happens, isn’t it? The pain doesn’t really go away, but you move it around a little bit, almost like giving it less light and water. I still have a hole in my heart, but it’s not as all-consuming. I was sleeping through life and didn’t even realize it.”
― Boo Walker, An Unfinished Story

“I am not responsible for what you did. None of us are. Your guilt is yours alone to bear, just as my mother’s is hers and no one else’s. I want to be set free from it. I want everyone in our family to be set free from what both of you did. The truth is finally out. Though we are bound by blood, I am no longer a part of your crime. No one else is.”
― Boo Walker, An Echo in Time

“Carl Jung writes, ‘It often seems as if there were an impersonal karma within a family, which passes on from parents to children. It has always seemed to me that I had to . . . complete, or perhaps continue, things which previous ages had left unfinished.”
― Boo Walker, An Echo in Time