Amanda Cox > Quotes

“If the story of my life could say one thing, I’d hope it would show the importance of venturing into the highways and the hedges to let invisible people know they’re seen and loved. To invite them in.”
― Amanda Cox, The Edge of Belonging

“You find a use for everything. Yet you discard yourself at every opportunity.”
― Amanda Cox, The Edge of Belonging

“There's a strand of the data viz world that argues that everything could be a bar chart. That's possibly true but also possibly a world without joy.”
― Amanda Cox

“She’d memorized the verse about peace that passes all understanding, but all she felt was the weight of depression.”
― Amanda Cox, The Edge of Belonging

“If we're going to move forward, it's important we ease our clutch on our own plans in order to see what wonderful things God has for our future.”
― Amanda Cox

“I'm grateful to have played a role, but I wasn't the planner orchestrating this event. This one was in the hands of One far more skilled than I, gently guiding even when we were all certain we'd lost our way.”
― Amanda Cox, Between the Sound and Sea

“Sit a spell, and I will tell you a story you'll never believe.”
― Amanda Cox, Between the Sound and Sea

“It's the things we don't s ay that have the power to rule our lives without our permission.
'Secret Keepers of Old Depot Grocery”
― Amanda Cox

“Living is about seeing past the challenges and not letting fear or false guilt be the decider for your life. Listen to the passions in your heart that your Creator put there. Maybe it's to stay. Maybe it's to go. Just listen for once instead of coming up with a list of reasons why you can't.”
― Amanda Cox, The Secret Keepers of Old Depot Grocery

“I don't think you'll ever find that 'full life' you've been craving until you accept the life you have. Mistakes. Heartache. Grief. All of it. Then you've got to decide if you're ready to let God have these burdens you've heaped upon your own shoulders, or if you'll keep on carrying that pain and regret, miserable under the weight of it.”
― Amanda Cox, The Secret Keepers of Old Depot Grocery

“There was nothing she loved better than gathering all the little details needed for a perfect event, lining them up with neat little rows, and then causing them to dance like a room full of Victorian lords and ladies.”
― Amanda Cox, Between the Sound and Sea

“I guess the longer you hold a secret, the harder it is to let it go.”
― Amanda Cox, The Edge of Belonging

“Take that first step that feels right and see what happens next," said Clay. "I think that's how God works in our lives a lot of times. He doesn't give us the whole picture. He gives us that one step. We just have to have the courage to take it and trust that when we do, it will become clear where to put our next foot.”
― Amanda Cox, The Secret Keepers of Old Depot Grocery

“It was freeing in a way, to have a family built on love by choice and not relational obligation.”
― Amanda Cox, The Edge of Belonging

“Every structure on these Carolina islands was built on a strip of shifting sand between the sound and sea. Though you're not supposed to hold onto anything too tightly here... even after all this time, I can't seem to let this place go.”
― Amanda Cox, Between the Sound and Sea

“Regret is a strange animal, son. It makes you create alternate realities inside your head with hindsight as your guide. You long for those imaginary outcomes until it's a sickness. But there's also another side to regret. Remembering its pain made me love your gramma more fully, embrace every moment with your dad and with you. Take nothing for granted. Because I knew how much it cost to get it wrong.”
― Amanda Cox

“She knew how to make things look pretty for an evening. But to mend something truly broken? She had serious doubts on that one.”
― Amanda Cox, Between the Sound and Sea