top of page
"Even if things were broken right now. Sometimes it was the cracks that let the light in."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Recovery quotes

"Basically, dating is like climbing a volcano and you never know when it's going to erupt, dumping molten lava and burning you."

"Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go."

"I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins."

"Perhaps that's the best way to recover, to return to the way things were before as quickly as we can. We won the Great Battle, so nothing needs to change."

"Your ability to make me feel like I was less than I was, took awhile to recover from. But after ripping my own self worth to shreds for so long, I realized that I wasn't less just because I was more than your inexperienced hands could handle."

"Pain can cause us to learn no end of lessons, but without resolution there can be no healing!"

"There is a period of one to two earth years that humans are to refrain from making big decisions. It's because you don't always make the best decisions when you are grieving. Those who make decisions in haste often live to regret them. You must move through the time of suffering, strengthening your faith and being willing to grow through the grief in order to be able to see things differently. As you grow, your blind faith will continue to open your eyes. You will see everything in a whole new light when you come out the other side of grief. Then you will be able to make very good decisions for yourself, better than ever, because of what you learned."

"You don't dwell on what you've lost, you just move on."
Explore more quotes by Shannon Hale

"Ani saw herself clearly in that moment, as a face in darkness gains sudden dimensions in a flash of lightning - a young girl, a silly thing, a lapdog, a broken mare."

"Jane Austen had created six heroines, each quite different, and that gave Charlotte courage. There wasn't just one kind of woman to be."

"The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first page and started to read, pronouncing the words in a reverent whisper."

"She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds."

"I wish stories were kinder to their characters,' Maddie said. 'But I guess trouble is more interesting to read about."

"My friends call me by my name.'You don't have any friends.'I don't want you to be my friend, Selia, or my servant, not now. I thought you were both. You have let me know I was wrong. So are you to treat me so. You are wrong."

"I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain while above the sky is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once, the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky."

"The woman gestured to a seat and put on a patient face. An impatient sort of patient face, like an impatient face dressing up as a patient one for Halloween."

"Don't beat yourself up,' said Charlotte. 'True love can be so easily mistaken for other things-friendship, humane concern, indigestion."
bottom of page