Breena Clarke > Quotes

“Only a teaspoon of self-pity, girl. Every day give yourself a teaspoonful, but only a teaspoonful. Fill it up full, but only once! Don’t let yourself have more. You can’t live off it. But just a bit of it is like a tonic.”
― Breena Clarke, River, Cross My Heart

“Try more things. Cross some lines.”
― Breena Clarke

“But comes a time for a woman when she stops thinking of herself as a girl, as a person of possibilities. She starts looking at the plain facts of herself. Her body that’s become the body that she has and her habits becoming the habits that she’s written in stone. Her “haves” being the ones she’s got and maybe not getting anymore.”
― Breena Clarke, River, Cross My Heart

“With these coming children we never relinquish the past. We keep seeing somebody gone in each new one.”
― Breena Clarke, River, Cross My Heart

“the Lord’s decision no matter what”
― Breena Clarke, River, Cross My Heart

“didn’t have to worry. A person of so fine a form and grace was her daughter, and she was fine over there. She had moxie and she was smart and there was nothing else to want for her. She’d be taking care of the wants for herself. Her mother would hold on to her still, but she could let her go at any time and the girl would be stalwart.”
― Breena Clarke, River, Cross My Heart