Sarah-Kate Lynch > Quotes

“If there’s one thing I have learned it’s that if you carry on as though nothing strange is happening, it usually stops being strange”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, On Top of Everything

“This is the thing no one prepares you for where disaster are concerned. There is no ominous black cloud, no spooky chill, no neon sign that flashes: Stop! Please! Go back to bed! There's something really really dreadful waiting to happen around the corner! I beg of you, do not continue!”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, On Top of Everything

“In my experience nobody gets to lead a totally charmed existence. Nobody escapes the pitfalls of being a human being. It’s what seperates us from the zebras. Or that’s my theory anyway”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, On Top of Everything

“If we are all going to have tragedies, if none of us can escape them, then surely we have to learn from them, we have to gain something. And we have to use what we have gained. Those of us who have fought tooth and nail to overcome tragedy are, after all, nothing else, proof that such things can be survived. So we can actually help others survive their tragedies too. As long as they’ll let us.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, On Top of Everything

“[D]espite her alternative leanings, it turned out Crystal was not particularly psyco-babbly or airy-fairy or tree-huggy, as one might have expected.

In fact, the first thing she did was write a list. She said writing lists helped calm her down when she was stressed about anything because it put problems in order. You can look at a list of things and see how you can tackle each one separately without feeling sick about it, she said. Whereas if they all just stayed jumbled in your mind in one great bit sticky ball you never got to consider them individually.

She actually spoke a lot of sense for someone with toe rings and a Chinese tattoo.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, On Top of Everything

“Only worry about what you absolutely know about,' Mr. Worthington said to me, putting my mind back where it belonged. 'That's the key. Worrying about anything else is just a waste of time and emotion. I know that seems obvious but honestly, the more information you have, the less your imagination can run away with you so the secret is to find out as much as you can about what your particular problem is....and you'll be amazed at how this simplifies things. You no longer have to worry about the what ifs.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, On Top of Everything

“She was tall and slender with long dark hair that swung in a shiny ponytail from one shoulder to the other, her dress swirling beneath her cinched waist.
He thought suddenly of watermelon. It was hard to come by back in Scotland but even before he'd ever tasted one in the flesh it had reminded him of summer (which was also hard to come by back in Scotland).
He knew what watermelon tasted like now; it was one of his favorite things. He could almost feel it in his mouth as he stood there, that cold sweet powerful explosion of almost nothing.
He needed to find a slice as soon as possible.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, The Wedding Bees

“The best thing about flying first class....was that you could be as nutty as a fruitcake and were still treated like the Queen of Sheba.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Finding Tom Connor

“She was a great wife...and a wonderful mother, a good daughter, a devoted sister and a truly nice person, which doesn't sound like much but it was one of her ambitions, to be a nice person, and she really got there, I think. She was always there. Or close, anyway.

Of course, she did spend her first thrity-nine years worrying too much and waiting for rotten things to happen to her. Then when they did, and some of the things were obviously, really, truly rotten, she realised she could have a lot more fun not waiting for them.

So you know what she did then? She just stopped seeing the rot.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, On Top of Everything

“Not for us the difficult poses, not for us the no-pain-no-gain, OK? Because to be truly happy you do not need to be a pretzel, you just need to walk without creaking.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“In the past I think I had corralled rotten things into groups of three because at some level it gave me the impression I was controlling them, keeping track of them. In my world I believed the universe would only dish out so much shite before it realised it had overdone it and corrected matters.

That, of course, turned out to be nonsense.

The truth is that sometimes the shite just keeps on coming and that is what is so unfair. But here's the thing: it's never all shite. If you can wake up in the morning for just long enough to breathe in and out and see the sun shining, you're already surviving it. You're already if not getting around it, at least getting over it, getting past it.

And who knows what can happen then?”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, On Top of Everything

“Where Annie came from, one assumed the worst and worked backwards from there.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“Everything dangerous and risky was exciting. Maybe she should try some excitement.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“Right now it just felt . . . inevitable. And unalterable. She couldn’t have changed her mind even if she wanted to. She’d fled, and there was no fleeing back. That would be worse than continuing to do nothing, than living with the status quo.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“In Santa Fe her whole yard had been crowded with different-sized terra-cotta pots, out of which she grew everything from rosemary and lavender to ornamental pear and plum trees and even peppers, although they were not particularly popular with the bees.
In Colorado she'd created a fertile oasis out of old gas cans and cut-off oil drums. Her neighbors had been skeptical to begin with but once her creepers grew up and her flowers draped down and her shrubs fluffed out, the junkyard ugly duckling was transformed into the proverbial backyard swan.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, The Wedding Bees

“His tendency to casually drop into the conversation, without expecting even a smidgen of sympathy, the likes of sleeping in the middle of a roundabout staggered her.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“You are a wise and wonderful woman.’ ‘No more wise and wonderful than anyone else,’ Heavenly said. ‘You should not forget this.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“She was tired of cleaning up after everyone even though she wanted to because that would mean they had a better time.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“There was probably a technical term for this, but it felt as though at a cellular level something had just rolled over instead of trying again.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“Time with her daughter had become so precious in recent years that she would happily spend an hour pretending to climb stairs just for the pleasure of doing it next to her.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“That she cried over the loss of a dog whose big claim to fame was that he could eat the crotch out of a pair of clean underpants in less than a minute?”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“In my experience there’s not a state in the world,” Fee said matter-of-factly, “that cannot be greatly improved by close proximity to cheese. Especially”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Blessed Are the Cheesemakers

“I've envied you over the years, carving out a different life for yourself, going where the wind blows you. That takes guts."
For the briefest sliver in time, the world shimmered and Sugar saw her life as an enviable jewel: a shining gem radiating energy and possibility that no one but she would ever possess, no matter what its deficiencies.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, The Wedding Bees

“It was true. Sugar did treat her bees like next of kin but then again, they were.
Along with her manners, the accent she tried so hard to soften, a single china cup covered in blue daisies and a weathered box of essential oils, they were all she carried with her from her past. Her bees relied on her for shelter and food but she relied on them too. She made her living from their honey, not just the healthful liquid itself but from the salves and gels and tinctures and remedies she created and sold at farm stands or farmers' markets wherever she lived.
It was the most symbiotic of relationships.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, The Wedding Bees

“You’ll methodically do everything you can to find me, then tick that off your list: a job well done. But will you ever even want to know why I went missing?”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“The only secrets I know are that if you keep your body moving and you know what is in your heart, your life will be better for it. It is not rocket science.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“Bad things happen, but good things happen, too, ma’am. Sometimes you must make yourself know about the good things. Especially in India.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“she had been surprised by a certain sponginess around her belly, her thighs, her hips, her upper arms. She didn’t weigh much more — well, not too much — but it was as though what she did weigh had given up paying attention. Her flesh was not bothering to hold itself together anymore,”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“You had to make yourself know about the good things,”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga

“I’m un-leaving you. I made a mistake. I was wrong.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga