Sara Foster > Quotes

“Lord, on this day, please grant us the serenity to accept all that we cannot change, the courage to change the things we need to, and your everlasting wisdom so that we may know the difference.”
― Sara Foster, The Hush

“When my walls start to crumble, I'm so damn frightened of what's behind them that I fix them straight back up again. Basically, I'm a mess...”
― Sara Foster, Beneath the Shadows

“was on its way.”
― Sara Foster, Come Back to Me

“He doesn’t have to, Chloe.’ Her mum moved the mug a little further from the table edge, and sighed. ‘Why do you try to see things in black and white when there’s a whole kaleidoscope of colour in between?’ ‘What are you saying?’ ‘That people do things for all sorts of reasons – whether good or bad, right or wrong, misguided or not – and that to have any hope of understanding what’s going on, you need to find those reasons. You don’t have to agree with them, or accept them, but you need to know what they are. There’s no difference between living a life based on lies”
― Sara Foster, Come Back to Me

“The system that supports you can also be used to control you,”
― Sara Foster, The Hush

“that other people have told you and living one that’s based on a lie you’ve told yourself.”
― Sara Foster, Come Back to Me

“nature’s beauty was a powerful balm for the mind.”
― Sara Foster, Shallow Breath

“Most of them don’t even mind being surveilled anymore if they think it keeps them safe, and women’s rights are always the first thing to go backward in a crisis.”
― Sara Foster, The Hush

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. RUMI”
― Sara Foster, Shallow Breath

“coming closer, their”
― Sara Foster, Come Back to Me

“she can make”
― Sara Foster, All That is Lost Between Us

“she had conducted meticulous daily inspections since the time she could crawl.”
― Sara Foster, The Hidden Hours

“I’m waiting to hear the engine spring to life. But nothing happens. Of course. The bloody battery is dead. I”
― Sara Foster, All That is Lost Between Us

“that she’s at the point of leaving us, I’m asking myself if I have been the mother I wanted to be, the mother she needed me to be. How well have I channelled this fierce, unbridled love? Could I have done anything else to equip her for life on her own, all grown up? Because although I can tell myself I’ll always be there for her, I know that she won’t always choose the safety net; sometimes she will brave the fall. Whatever happens to all of us, the sun will keep spinning the seasons, nurturing the lakes and fells, casting its long, deep shadows and bestowing its steadfast light. All I can do is trust my daughter. It is her life, not mine, and she has her own choices to make. Inevitably, one day she will decide to leave us – breaking off a piece of my heart and taking it with her. When the time comes, my love will be captured in her freedom. My life will run beside hers, ever onward, out of sight.”
― Sara Foster, All That is Lost Between Us

“Why are we so careless that we let our own histories die without even noticing?”
― Sara Foster, Beneath the Shadows

“There was an address on the website and she scribbled it on the back of her internet ticket. Then she clicked back to the search page and typed in ‘Chloe Markham’. There were a few links that were obviously irrelevant, but then one came up under lewisandmarchant.com. Going to that, she found a page containing a picture of the girl she had just conjured up in her memory. Yet in this portrait Chloe’s smile wasn’t the natural one she’d had at the restaurant, and she wore a suit jacket with a white shirt underneath as she sat straight-backed and gazed into the camera lens. Julia”
― Sara Foster, Come Back to Me

“It’s raining outside, and the rush of water is a million murmuring voices, cajoling, soothing, warning, impatient. Get moving, they say.”
― Sara Foster, The Hush

“In the information age, because we all have access to information, everyone considers themselves an expert.”
― Sara Foster, The Hush

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T. S. ELIOT”
― Sara Foster, Shallow Breath