Quotes from Karen White

The highway of life was littered with the roadkill of those who didn't know when to change lanes.

I wish I could change things for you, make it so this all doesn't have to hurt so much. But that's the point, isn't it? That one day we'll find that the pain we suffered was worth it.

But there is room now in my heart for more memories, carved by a letting go that I could find only by coming home to a place I'd never been.

It still amazed me sometimes when I caught sight of myself in a mirror. I would be startled to see the stranger there, as if still expecting to see my blond hair and tight skin, my hands with long, straight fingers. Age was a thief, an insidious one who instead of robbing you at night while you slept took all of your possessions one by one and forced you to watch.

Looking pretty isn't about how people see you. It's about letting people know how you feel about yourself.

Sugar, your clothes should always be tight enough to show that you're a woman, but loose enough to show that you're a lady." She

Those who refuse to acknowledge the past are condemned to repeat it.

But maybe everybody was like that, all of us living the lives we had to while dreaming of the lives we wanted.

There was so much we didn't know, so much we would never know. The secrets of the dead are always kept.

It'll be all right. Maybe not tomorrow or even the next day, but one day it won't hurt so much.

Being a mother is like being a gardener of souls. You tend your children, make sure the light always touches them

Everybody dies. But not everybody lives.

To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.

Rainbows always gave her hope—hope that something beautiful waited for those strong enough to survive the storm.

That there are no troubles in life that can't be sorted through or solved by spending time in the garden

All shut-eye ain't sleep; all good-bye ain't gone." The Time Between

Even in the blackest darkness, there is always light shining somewhere.

I've always thought my attraction to water was because it offers an unending source of renewal. It's there with each wave—with each tide. Always wiping the shore clean of all imperfections in time for the next tide.

I stared back at him, trying to think of a way to explain how I'd eradicated the word "want" from my vocabulary long ago and replaced it with "need." It made life so much easier that way, blowing away all the unnecessary and distracting clutter from a life of purpose, much like I imagined a storm sweeping away anything not strong enough to withstand the struggle.

Because a garden is the heart of a house, where love is the seed and the dark earth like a mother who nurtures her saplings until they bloom, and then waits for them with furrowed arms to return. It is the story told again and again from my garden: from dust we begin, and to dust we will return again.

Sometimes hope is all we have, and to lose that is to lose all.

There are times when fear needs to be in the driver's seat. The best learning and growing happens when wisdom is won from pain.

It's not always the distance of a trip that determines its value. Sometimes the best trips are only as far as the circumference of your heart.

Some are called to be gardeners of souls, and she'd tended hers with the blind dedication that accepted the floods and famine along with the sunshine.