Quotes from Inglath Cooper

I felt it shelter to speak to you. ~ Emily Dickinson

Life is short, my friend. We have to make the most of our chances. We're not so different from these little guys. Happiness is out there. But it's not guaranteed, and we can't wait for it to come to us.

Me too," I say. We sit there in the chair together, kissing like we did when we were sixteen and everything in the world seemed possible. Turns out, it is.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. ~ Desmond Tutu

I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence . . . – Maya Angelou

The best things in life are unexpected – because there were no expectations. ~ Eli Khamarov

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.

If we don't do better than those we accuse, we have no right to complain.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. ~ Buddha

The way my heart hurt with hope for them as I watched them struggle with every step forward.

Keeping my eyes on the page and my head in someone else's story is about the only distraction that works.

People look at the outside of a person and assume they know everything there is to know about the inside of that person. The trouble is a few coats of paint and some new shutters can do a lot for the exterior of a house, but tell you nothing about its foundation or its ability to weather life's storms. I would say the same is true of people.

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together. - Author Unknown

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it." – Sir Walter Scott

Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. – Author Unknown

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are." ?Richard Paul Evans

And I wonder how we could possibly have ended up in this place. Why I didn't see the warning signs far enough in advance to prevent this from happening. I try to hold back the sob swooping up from deep inside me like a tsunami from the ocean floor. But I can't, and I bend forward, crying for my failures as a mother

Lambert while I'm at it." "She's

not as if they won't know the truth soon

The problem is, you're looking for faults from the first moment you meet a man." "I hate to disillusion you, but when they're as obvious as the San Andreas, they're not that hard to spot.

Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live." 

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all." ?Emily Dickinson

The trick then has to be letting go of the safe, the known and reaching out for what we can't yet see.