AnnaLisa Grant > Quotes

“A book can tell you all the emotions and subtext that are so rarely aptly portrayed in film. You understand the nuances of each character. You breathe every breath with them and cry every tear.”
― AnnaLisa Grant, The Lake

“Sometimes I wish I could sleep forever, but that would mean dreaming forever…and I just can’t risk that.”
― AnnaLisa Grant, The Lake

“Avid readers are a breed of their own, and we’re often accused of being heady. I don’t care. I love books and can devour one in a whole day if I’m allowed.”
― AnnaLisa Grant, The Lake

“I always prefer fiction. Anything else feels like homework.”
― AnnaLisa Grant, The Lake

“Gram and Gramps never spoke of them either. I guess that bridge got burned, too. Hell, Gram probably poured the gasoline and lit the match herself!”
― AnnaLisa Grant, The Lake

“There’s something about a bookstore that is so calming. It’s a place where I feel like I belong, like everyone there is part of a special family or fraternity that other people don’t understand. Avid readers are a breed of their own, and we’re often accused of being heady. I don’t care. I love books and can devour one in a whole day if I’m allowed.”
― AnnaLisa Grant, The Lake

“tender. Claire seems to be the gentle voice of reason. “We’ve already been through this with them, Luke. They”
― AnnaLisa Grant, The Lake

“around and then leave through the front door, never looking back. I walk”
― AnnaLisa Grant, The Lake

“They were structured, but let me do almost anything I wanted. I don’t mean I was allowed to stay up until three in the morning. I mean that whatever I wanted to do or try, they let me. It was great because it made me feel like they loved me enough to understand I was my own person. It was terrible at the same time because sometimes, after I failed miserably, I wished they would have shown some parental insight and protected me from getting hurt. But…they were always there to celebrate or pick up the pieces.”
― AnnaLisa Grant, The Lake

“I guess just because you're family doesn't mean you have to be friends.”
― AnnaLisa Grant, The Lake

“Sometimes a tragedy sends us down the path we’re supposed to be on so we can find what we’re meant to find. It isn’t pretty, but its life.”
― AnnaLisa Grant, Safe Harbor

“Life is not perfect. It never will be. If we take the terrible things that happen to us in life as some sign that we’re destined to be doomed forever, well, that’s not a life at all.”
― AnnaLisa Grant, The Complete Lake Series

“There’s something about a bookstore that is so calming.”
― AnnaLisa Grant, The Lake

“fight he thought he should be better prepared.”
― AnnaLisa Grant, The Complete Lake Series

“first time in,”
― AnnaLisa Grant, Troubled Waters

“the past five years. Sometimes I wish I could sleep forever, but that would mean dreaming forever…and I just can’t risk that. As I finally give up on sleep and open my eyes, I have to wipe”
― AnnaLisa Grant, The Lake

“tears in”
― AnnaLisa Grant, The Lake

“You can have as many do-overs as you need. Life is imperfect and so are we. We are never going to make all the right choices. We’re never going to be in every ideal situation. All we have in life is our ability to control our actions. We can change our part of any outcome at any point.”
― AnnaLisa Grant, The Lake

“surprised I didn’t sleep longer, considering how wiped out I was from yesterday’s packing. Now that Gramps has passed, I am moving from small town Florida to”
― AnnaLisa Grant, The Lake

“what about all those childhood experiences? Sarah is going to have a stream of experiences entirely different to what Will had. Growing”
― AnnaLisa Grant, The Complete Lake Series

“You can be strong but sometimes the loneliness is so overwhelming that you don’t know if you’ll be able to take another breath. The pain in your heart is so excruciating that it can’t help but spread to your stomach, eventually overtaking every fiber of your being. You cry until you’re sure you’ve dehydrated yourself, so you compensate. You throw yourself into mind-numbing activities where you don’t have to think about anything. You find an escape, a way for you to be fully present somewhere your loneliness doesn’t exist. ”
― AnnaLisa Grant, The Lake

“lost her best friend to two people who poop in their pants and drool.”
― AnnaLisa Grant, The Complete Lake Series

“A normal life means that you take what happens to you in it and press on, using those experiences to make you a better person.”
― AnnaLisa Grant, Troubled Waters

“So far my uncle and aunt, Luke and Claire, have shown me more kindnesses in the last 24 hours than my grandmother did in the two years I lived with them before she died. They remind me of my parents in this, which fills me with more excitement than I know how to express.”
― AnnaLisa Grant, The Lake

“When all you want to do is move on and forget, life brings you someone with whom you can entrust all of your secrets, everything you thought you wanted to leave behind. That person ends up holding those secrets with you, because you really can’t leave everything behind. There are things that we must carry with us because they are a very important part of our life story.”
― AnnaLisa Grant, The Complete Lake Series

“It’s a Kindle Reader.”
― AnnaLisa Grant, The Lake

“person’s willingness to wait reveals the value they place on what they’re waiting for?” Will”
― AnnaLisa Grant, Troubled Waters

“there is a spark of romance there. “That’s too bad for Will, but it sounds like it”
― AnnaLisa Grant, The Lake

“tenacious”
― AnnaLisa Grant, The Lake

“well-deserved morning of sleeping in, so I reach for my phone and send”
― AnnaLisa Grant, The Lake