Quotes from Karen White

life wasn't about keeping score—but

That no matter how good or bad things were, they were never permanent.

Sometimes, just when we think we can see our lives on course and we can settle back and get comfortable, a new path opens. Some people just keep going, too scared to veer off the familiar path. But others, well, they step off into the unknown, and find that maybe that was where they were supposed to be all along.

the Williamses, Loralee and I had driven to a grocery store with the improbable name of Piggly Wiggly to pick

Do you have mosquitoes in Maine?" Owen asked. "Oh, yes. The mosquito is the unofficial state bird of Maine, I think." He grinned. "Daddy used to say that about Georgia." "Well, South Carolina's is the palmetto bug, just in case you were wondering.

Madame LaFleur would say that you're more of a classical ballet dancer instead of a jazz dancer. But sometimes all you have to do is change costumes to become something different.

It's good to be a little nervous. God compensates those with a lack of talent with an overabundance of self-confidence. -Gigi

He was just born with inner demons that were always stronger than he was.

Don't see the notes. See the music. See the story it is telling you. Allow the music to change you. Allow it to give you the courage to do whatever you need to

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Don't think of the realities, Ceecee. Think of possibilities and dreams. Of things you can't even imagine yet. And write those down.

A pile of timber, remains of either a house or a ship, huddled like a frightened child, cradling a glint of metal in

and whether you could force happiness on yourself, simply by arranging your mouth in a happy expression.

over the smooth lip of the china cup, I thought of how someone's loss had become my gain, of how the tide would roll in and out again as if nothing had changed, and how sometimes the separation between endings and beginnings is so

The golden moments ?n the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; The angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. —George Eliot

Surrounding yourself with a lot of desert is a bit like sitting in quicksand: Sooner or later the water will find you and suck you under.

a heartbreak only makes your heart bigger, that someday all those cracks and holes will be filled in with all the joy and love you haven't had yet.

graduation.

Is your father," Margie completed for me. "Which makes Prunella Pratt your father's stepmother, which I suppose means that Harry Pratt was your stepgrandfather? Or something like that.

you never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.

let the story go, and still clutched F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise in my arms as if to let it go would

No. I simply love Charleston.

We live, we love. These are the choices we are given, to open doors or to close them. It is all we have, and it is enough.

There is an unease in you, too, which I sensed. You remind me of an anchor searching for a spot to latch on to.