Quotes from Carolyn Parkhurst

There's no book that absolutely everyone loves.

We never know, do we, what our neighbors might be doing behind their fences, what love affairs and bloody rituals might be taking place right next door? The world is a more interesting place that we ever think.

All I wanted for the rest of my life was to keep making her laugh like that.

The simplest thing that can be said about any person, any relationship, is that it's not simple at all.

Sometimes I wonder how we can be so sure what it is God sees. How arrogant we are, I sometimes think, to imagine there's someone watching us every minute. To think our every action matters that much.