Mockingbird Summer Quotes

“A book, like music, is very personal. You bring yourself, your own story, to everything you read. It’s a book’s boon and bane. But it’s also its raison d’être—its reason for being—to meet you where you are. Exactly like a great piece of music.”
― Lynda Rutledge, Mockingbird Summer

“the thing to remember about normal. In big times of change, normal is what is being changed.”
― Lynda Rutledge, Mockingbird Summer

“Although some things never change about growing up, the time in which you grow up isn’t one of them. It’s forever changing, shaping you in ways you can’t control or anticipate. As each year passes, the only wild card is you.”
― Lynda Rutledge, Mockingbird Summer

“Because while a journalist’s job is to tell what is true, a novelist’s job is to tell what it truth, to create a world in which you’d want to live, in which everything is just, even if only in the end.”
― Lynda Rutledge, Mockingbird Summer

“Because while a journalist’s job is to tell what is true, a novelist’s job is to tell what is truth,”
― Lynda Rutledge, Mockingbird Summer

“Since Eden, there’s always been a snake in the garden. That’s the world we must journey through, one full of snakes willing to do wrong.”
― Lynda Rutledge, Mockingbird Summer

“Everybody’s got their own story, she realized as she locked eyes with the driver of a passing car . . . and they’re swirling around me every moment of every day. All she had to do was be open to seeing them.”
― Lynda Rutledge, Mockingbird Summer

“There is a young moment when the world can suddenly reveal that it doesn’t revolve around you.”
― Lynda Rutledge, Mockingbird Summer

“the world you grow up in always feels like the way it has always been and will always be. Until it isn’t.”
― Lynda Rutledge, Mockingbird Summer

“We forget this world is fallen. We forget that it's our duty to remember to be better to stand up to Evil when it shows itself, even if it sometimes shows itself within our own hearts. In fact, that's the only kind over which we really have total control, the kind within us. It's also the easiest kind to make right.”
― Lynda Rutledge, Mockingbird Summer

“Time passes differently in the middle of the night. It felt like a long time and yet no time at all.”
― Lynda Rutledge, Mockingbird Summer

“it’s our duty to remember to be better,”
― Lynda Rutledge, Mockingbird Summer

“Words matter,”
― Lynda Rutledge, Mockingbird Summer

“There’s no frigate like a book to take us lands away”
― Lynda Rutledge, Mockingbird Summer

“Everybody’s got their own story,”
― Lynda Rutledge, Mockingbird Summer

“love to see once more.”
― Lynda Rutledge, Mockingbird Summer

“The dream is free. The hustle is sold separately.”
― Lynda Rutledge, Mockingbird Summer

“few of the touchstone books referred to or studied for background include Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique;”
― Lynda Rutledge, Mockingbird Summer