Darlene

“Mama?"

"Yes, Emmy."

She traced a rivulet of rain with her finger as it made its journey down the glass. "How do you know when it's been long enough?"

Emmy could sense her mother smiling into the phone. "When you relaize that love doesn't have a time span. Only pain does. I think sometimes it's hard to distinguish between the two, so we just hold on to both of them like they're inseparable.”
― Karen White, On Folly Beach

“Strong winds buffet the sea oats and tall dune grasses, tossing sand and seabirds where it will, winding my sister's golden hair into sunlit spirals of silk until it becomes the only good memory I have of her -- the only memory I allowed myself to keep.”
― Karen White, The Memory of Water

“Where there is life, there is hope.”
― Karen White, The Lost Hours

“Great tragedy gives us opportunities for great kindness.”
― Karen White, The Beach Trees