Kara Sekely > Kara's Quotes

“If this makes you wonder whether the joys and pain of a place wash away as the floodwaters rise and swallow, I can tell you they do not. The landscapes of our youths create us, and we carry them within us, storied by all they gave and stole, in who we become.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

“as the pieces death takes from you find a way to live without them. You honor their death by living and doing and standing.”
― Nora Roberts, The Choice

“Do you wonder where poetry come from? Where do we get the songs we sing and the tales we tell? Do you ever ask yourself how it is that some people can dream great, wise, beautiful dreams and pass those dreams on as poetry to the world, to be sung and retold as long as the moon will wax and wane? Have you ever wondered why some people make beautiful songs and poems and tales, and some of us do not?
It is a long story, and it does no credit to anyone: there is murder in it, and trickery, lies and foolishness, seduction and pursuit. Listen.”
― Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

“transmutation. She saw the memory through his eyes. And what she saw, for the first time, was not ugliness at all but pain so enormous and consuming that it had felt like dying. I’m sorry, she said silently to her past self. I’m sorry I hated you. I’m sorry I wasn’t kinder. All the shame that had been tangled up in the memory was annihilated, leaving only compassion and regret in its place.”
― Sangu Mandanna, A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping

“the magic of a lit window on a dark night, the magic of the wild green land, the magic of birds' nest boy hair and trampolines and hot tea and glacier eyes lit with laughter, the magic of living, living, living.
That was the magic that made wildflowers bloom.”
― Sangu Mandanna, A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping

“Spend a bit more time with todays and a bit less time with yesterdays and tomorrows.”
― Sangu Mandanna, A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping

“Theirs was a friendship built on the unspoken, shared understanding that you can love the home you’ve made with the whole of your heart and still know the land it’s built on will never claim you.”
― Sangu Mandanna, A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping

“Your foot’s not ugly. It’s never been ugly. It’s held you up all your life, even when it hurt. Maybe it’s just me, but I think there’s so much strength and beauty in that.”
― Sangu Mandanna, A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping

“Also, I hope you have an umbrella. It rains apple blossom tea in this room every Sunday.”
― Sangu Mandanna, A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping

“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

“I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember