Boo Walker > Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

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

“but the years had shed the warming blanket of youth,”
― 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

“Friends and family. What could be more important?”
― Boo Walker, A Spanish Sunrise

“All that work of being your best self gets old.”
― Boo Walker, An Echo in Time

“How could he have such a strong effect on her after all these years? This was exactly what love was, she thought, a feeling you have for people who didn’t always deserve it.”
― Boo Walker, The Singing Trees

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

“When I fell in love for the second time, I felt guilty, but I concluded that loving another man doesn't mean that you have to stop loving the first one. I love both of my men equally. In different ways, but equally." She patted her chest. "I have room inside here for both of them.”
― Boo Walker, An Unfinished Story

“THINK WITH YOUR HEART, NOT WITH YOUR HEAD”
― Boo Walker, An Unfinished Story

“Because as you get older, you lose your friends and your family. It’s the loneliness that seems to kill us. Don’t let your parents get lonely.”
― Boo Walker, The Stars Don't Lie

“What she’s going after is exactly why she became an astronomer in the first place, and why I have always impressed upon you and every other one of my students the importance of lifting one’s chin. It’s about experiencing awe, Carver. When you can put yourself in a state of awe, you see things for what they truly are. We’re lifted out of the fragile cage in which our tiny minds are often trapped.”
― Boo Walker, The Stars Don't Lie

“If he only knew what she was going through, he’d let her spend another afternoon curled up in bed with a book in her hands, checked out from the world.”
― Boo Walker, An Echo in Time

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

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