Patti > Patti's Quotes

“You tread lightly through life, but you leave deep footprints that are hard for other people to fill.”
― Josie Silver, One Day in December

“There comes a point where you have to make the choice to be happy, because being sad for too long is exhausting.”
― Josie Silver, One Day in December

“Every now and then, I wish I could press pause on life and stay longer in a moment. This is one of those moments.”
― Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

“Life is the stuff that happens between the cracks in your plans and expectations.”
― Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

“You never commit a mundane moment to memory, thinking it'll be the last time you'll hear their voice, or see their smile, or smell their perfume. Your head never remembers the things your heart wants to in hindsight.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“I loved how a book, a story, a set of words in a sentence organized in the exact right order, made you miss places you’ve never visited, and people you’ve never met.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“Nothing lasts forever. Not the good things, not the bad. So just find what makes you happy, and do it for as long as you can.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“I had never seen a white man filled with such fear. The remarkable truth, however, was that it was not the pistol, but my language, the fact that I didn’t conform to his expectations, that I could read, that had so disturbed and frightened him.”
― Percival Everett, James

“There's this part in A CIRCLE OF QUIET where Madeleine (L'Engle) writes about how the more limited our language is, the more it restricts our power to think.”
― Kim Fay, Kate & Frida

“You must do the thing that you think you can't do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt