Quotes from Leila Meacham

I'm learning not to hope for what I can't control...

Don't be afraid to let it go. Releasing hate does not make you forget what you want always to remember. It does not mean reconciliation.

A small part of the South not yet gone with the wind.

The pathway to hell was paved with good intentions, but what about the wrongs committed for the right reasons? Were they included as well? Life had taught him that anything that starts wrong, ends wrong. In this case, he supposed that only time and its unpredictable mercies would tell. - Percy

How many more burdens do you think you can bear alone? How many more years can I go on alone, without you? Our days are filled from dawn to dusk, honey, but our lives are empty.

It was more as if they recognize they were two halves of a whole who'd found their missing. Matt and Rachel

He ragarded her in surprise. This was a different tune from the one he'd expected to hear, certainly a change from the verse she'd sung when he was a boy. Commitment to ones' name, to one's heritage, to that which the sacrifices of others had made possible -- that was the song he used to hear from Aunt Mary. "Yes, I do," she said, "If I've learned anything by now, it's that some things are too priceless to sacrifice for a name." - Mary and William

Memory could be a terrible thing .. an instrument of torture that persists in its work long after a man has suffered his time upon the rack.

Better to know defeat from courage

Better to know defeat from courage than safety through chickenheartedness.

By remembering that what you cannot undo, you must accept. And in accepting…you will find the grace to forgive yourself.

Sometimes, he thought, a man couldn't do better than to wind up where he started.

It was more as if they recognized they were two halves of a whole who'd found their missing part.

said made her even more special. Even so, to avoid any unpleasantness that could develop, friends and family never referred to the adoption, so that in time the fact of it was almost forgotten or never known. But

silence. Finally, he said, "So you and

I have never not loved you any more than I have never not breathed. They're one and the same for me.