Cathie Pelletier > Quotes

“Peace of mind comes in the strangest boxes.”
― Cathie Pelletier, Beaming Sonny Home

“Nobody likes for the hero to walk away.”
― Cathie Pelletier, Beaming Sonny Home

“But Harry knew now that love was a soldier. It can invade the human heart. Build canopies through jungles. Scale castle walls. Cross moats. Love can probably walk on water.”
― Cathie Pelletier, The One-Way Bridge

“I know how loud the seconds can sound as you stand by a window and peer out into the night.”
― Cathie Pelletier, Beaming Sonny Home

“Now I'll give you some advice, since you been asking for it. Happiness is like them plants you been yapping about. Sometimes it's growing right in your own backyard and you don't even know it.”
― Cathie Pelletier, The One-Way Bridge

“There were worse things than being young and foolish.”
― Cathie Pelletier, Beaming Sonny Home

“You don't jump off a bridge by mistake.”
― Cathie Pelletier, Beaming Sonny Home

“Sometimes, in the dark of night, when no one else could hear him but me, he'd cry out, like he was fighting some silent little war in his head.”
― Cathie Pelletier, Beaming Sonny Home

“The world was an awful place, too awful to live in, if people could kill a President so easily.”
― Cathie Pelletier, Beaming Sonny Home

“He had lived as a handful of taffy between his mother and his father all his life, had been pulled in so many directions, stretched here and there, that all he could do was plaster a mighty smile on his face.”
― Cathie Pelletier, Beaming Sonny Home

“She knew for certain there were all kinds of people who craved their youth, who would run like gazelles toward that fishhook of time, peeling off the years like old imagined skins.”
― Cathie Pelletier, Beaming Sonny Home

“This is what keeps ghosts locked to the earth, that sweet burning need for something they loved and gave up too soon.”
― Cathie Pelletier, Beaming Sonny Home

“the sort of kid who steered his bicycle around snakes crossing the road”
― Cathie Pelletier, Beaming Sonny Home

“Mattie felt drained, as though someone had stood her on her head and poured her entire heart and soul right out of her body.”
― Cathie Pelletier, Beaming Sonny Home

“Americans look for heroes in the strangest of places.”
― Cathie Pelletier, Beaming Sonny Home

“Only Gracie knew what it was like to wake up at night and feel how cold sheets can get on the empty side of a bed.”
― Cathie Pelletier, Beaming Sonny Home

“Never had anyone said, "Listen. Life is short. Pretend your body is still in its twenties. Jump for the brass ring. Swing for those bleachers. Dive into the deep end of the pool. Act like a fool if you must, but at least *live*.”
― Cathie Pelletier, The One-Way Bridge

“caught up in the exciting world of adults and their antics”
― Cathie Pelletier, Beaming Sonny Home

“The big television crouched in the shadowy beam of the porch light. Mattie could see its black, open face, and she felt as though she were looking into the mouth of a deep, dangerous cave.”
― Cathie Pelletier, Beaming Sonny Home

“He felt the rush of years, years wasted and years used wisely. He felt time moving through him, as if it were a ghost, a thing that can haunt a man's days and nights.”
― Cathie Pelletier

“talking above the pain of his broken heart”
― Cathie Pelletier, Beaming Sonny Home

“When you don't know enough about life to know what you might have missed out on, your imagination plays wicked tricks on you.”
― Cathie Pelletier, Beaming Sonny Home

“The years of her life tumbled out onto the floor like marbles that she would never be able to gather up again in one bowl. The years of her life had been a made puzzle that one day gets unmade, the pieces all scattered.”
― Cathie Pelletier, Beaming Sonny Home

“Everything seemed to be a clue to the hereafter, now that one of her own had gone there.”
― Cathie Pelletier, Beaming Sonny Home

“looking off at the past as though it were a place one might still get to”
― Cathie Pelletier, Beaming Sonny Home

“It wasn't that Mattie didn't believe in God. She did, she most surely did. She just didn't like some of the things He did, is all.”
― Cathie Pelletier, Beaming Sonny Home

“She had stood there with the phone pressed to her ear as though it were a huge plastic seashell, all the unhappy years of her marriage echoing again in her eardrums, washing up in the coils of her memory.”
― Cathie Pelletier, Beaming Sonny Home

“Sometimes you need to be touched to know you're still alive.”
― Cathie Pelletier, Beaming Sonny Home

“Who the hell ain't dysfunctional these days? When the Kennedys straighten out, then maybe the rest of us should worry.”
― Cathie Pelletier, Beaming Sonny Home

“Almost overnight, Albert Pinkham had gone from being barely able to keep his head above water to walking on the stuff.”
― Cathie Pelletier, Once Upon a Time on the Banks