Quotes from Mary Alice Monroe

Synchronicity (life) isn't a series of random events at all, but an expression of a deeper order.

You carry my love within you. A day will never dawn nor a sunset slip into the horizon when I will not think of you. I accept that the mind often dictates the heart. Yet I believe that the heart is the truer guide. So, if in the course of time you should want to come to me, do not hesitate. Know that I will be waiting for you. You will always have my heart—my love.

She closed her eyes as his full weight stretched over her. They fit together perfectly and as they clung together her woman's body felt that at last she had found the man's bones from which she'd been created, and she was overcome with desire to become one flesh.

Sometimes when we see that we only have a few pages left we slow down, savoring each word, staving off the inevitable.

The yellow cottage with the Charleston green shutters

Yolanda stood with her head cocked and her dark eyes gleaming, like a crow at the fence line.

Sully's brooding blue eyes sparked to life when they kissed, like his truck when he fired the engine.

When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces up with a lot of other things already there and what comes out is discontent and uneasiness, guilt and a compulsion to get something—anything—before it is all gone. —John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

After living at sea for twenty years or more, the female loggerhead returns to the beach of her birth to nest. She travels hundreds of miles through the Atlantic, her three-hundred-pound, eddish-brown carapace filled with hundreds of fertile eggs.

Why didn't you tell me? It's all such a complicated mess." "Most lives are if you live long enough, my darling." "I've

A woman saw those turtle tears and instinctively knew that the turtle mother wept for her children. A mother knew of all the predators that awaited her young, of the swift currents that might lead them astray, of the dazzle of dangerous lights, of the complicated nets that could entangle them and of the many years of solitary swimming. She wept because she could not protect them from their fate.

Einstein said the only source of knowledge is experience.

When would he learn humility?

women need solitude in our lives to refill our well and garner strength to face life's deeper questions.

Her love for Mamaw had always been like that porch light, the one true shining light in her heart when the world proved dark and scary.

She captured the singular moment in her mind, with the sun shining on their faces, knowing she'd keep it in her memory forever like a treasured photograph.

Her fear kept her as caged as her canaries. The glass windows were no different than their metal bars.

Life is a series of risks. Trust, and you'll sometimes be hurt. Love, and someone will die. Life is joy and pain. If you don't risk the pain, you lose out on the joy. This was Seth's final lesson to us.

Don't fear death. Death is life's companion. If you fear death, you fear life." His hand tightened on her chin. "Nora, don't be afraid to live.

was a man with whom she could join hands and build a life of trust, and honor and mutual respect. Could she really believe that such a life was possible? Opening

When she died, what would matter except that she loved and was loved in return?

You don't have to say thank you. I'm your mother. It's my job. My pleasure.

She left home in a huff of tears and landed in Chicago. That soaring city on Lake Michigan suited her outspoken, rebellious ways more than the delicately mannered, cultured city of Charleston ever had.

Just a sliver of luminosity to give her hope.