Sandy Snyder

“To face the past is to momentarily turn your back on what is now. And when you do that, you miss so damn much.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“If you’re fortunate enough to live as long as I have, you’re given the opportunity to become many people in one lifetime. To evolve, grow, change—sometimes, when I look back at the girl I was at nineteen, or even the woman at forty or fifty, it’s as if I’m viewing another’s life.”
― Christine Nolfi, The Secret Library of Hanna Reeves

“Let me tell you, sweet patootie, we have got a deluxe compartment. It has two pull-down berths, which make four beds altogether, and that is what breaks our hearts because there is an empty bunk which would have been yours, Countess Singing Cloud. Tonight before we go to sleep, we are going to fold down the covers and pretend you are there.”
― Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

“But there was a last time. An unforeseen and uncommemorated last time. I don’t remember it. That, more than anything, describes aging to me—the letting go of one activity after the next, with no fanfare. Just realizing later that the last time has come and gone,”
― Alice Elliott Dark, Fellowship Point