Quotes from Karen White

wishing I could read his face, but it was hidden

I don't hold on grudges, you know. They're like expired milk in the fridge.

Life doesn't get easier. We just get stronger.

wood rot on the mantelpiece in the

My childhood had been vanishing bit by bit while I'd been living in New York, trying to pretend it had never existed. Maybe that was what the old saying – that a person can never really go home again – was all about. You couldn't go home because even though home might still be there in brick and mortar, everything else would be unrecognizable.

Maybe that's what being a mother was—not so much the act of giving birth, but the sense of understanding and love born from the need to protect.

I learned the hard way that you can't spend your whole life facing the wrong way. You'll never see what's ahead of you if all you ever see are ghosts of your past.

If it got out that I didn't have to rush back, I'd be forced to stay longer. The thought of remaining scared me. Like I'd start shedding my new, shiny skin I'd worked so hard to achieve, revealing the scarred and ugly person beneath.

I think we become good parents by either copying what our parents did or doing the opposite. The trick is in deciding which way you want to go.

They sat in silence, watching the river flow in the same direction it always had, a ribbon connecting the past with the present, and a reminder that time moved on regardless of whether you wanted it too.

Everything I've ever learned has brought me to this one conclusion – we are all thrown into this world without a road map, and it's up to us to muddle through. We are free to make a mess of it or to make a success out of our lives. Most of us choose something in between.

People have different ways of expressing love. It doesn't mean the love is worth any less.

Grief was like that, Ceecee had learned. It either opened your heart or closed it.

Because she needed ore than sleep. She needed oblivion.

Apparently, a good friend helps you bury a body. A best friend brings their own shovel and doesn't ask questions.

Throughout our lives we are all falling. Falling down, falling out, falling away. Falling in love. The trick is finding someone to catch us. And sometimes we surprise ourselves by finding out that person is us.

Just goes to show that if it has tires or testicles, it's bound to cause you trouble.

a thousand good intentions could never tip the scale over one unforgivable mistake.

There's something about mothers and daughters, I think, that makes us always want to hold close at the same time we try to push each other away.

One need not be a chamber to be haunted, One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.—EMILY DICKINSON

Be patient and strong; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Survival is like a stone wall, and kindness is a door.

Actually, they're really just ordinary plants. But they've learned to survive unordinary events, which makes them like the strongest plants in the world. That's pretty cool.

that would be a lot like planting a rose in the desert; you'd survive but you'd never really bloom.