“Memories were like sunshine. They warmed you up and left a pleasant glow, but you couldn't hold them.”
― Clare Vanderpool, quote from Moon Over Manifest
“Who would dream that one can love without being crushed under the weight of it?”
― Clare Vanderpool, quote from Moon Over Manifest
“...the person you encounter is often more than the person you see.”
― Clare Vanderpool, quote from Moon Over Manifest
“If there is such a thing as a universal--and I wasn't ready to throw all of mine out the window--it's that there is power in a story. And if someone pays you such a kindness as to make up a tale so you'll enjoy a gingersnap, you go along with that story and enjoy every last bite.”
― Clare Vanderpool, quote from Moon Over Manifest
“Maybe the world wasn’t made of universals that could be summed up in neat little packages. Maybe there were just people. People who were tired and hurt and lonely and kind in their own way and their own time.”
― Clare Vanderpool, quote from Moon Over Manifest
“When there is suffering, we look for a reason. That reason is easiest found within oneself.”
― Clare Vanderpool, quote from Moon Over Manifest
“Maybe that was how I found comfort just then, even with him being so far away. By remembering the flavor of his words.”
― Clare Vanderpool, quote from Moon Over Manifest
“But the woman, the mother, she watches, she waits, she loves. And she bears the weight of that love. She bears the loss of her son to war. She bears the story of Manifest. When everyone else is crushed by it, by the loss, the pain. When no one else can bear to remember. She is the keeper of the story. Until someone who needs to hear it comes along. When it will be time to make it known. To manifest. That's what a diviner does.”
― Clare Vanderpool, quote from Moon Over Manifest
“You know how men are. When they don't feel good, the world comes to a standstill.”
― Clare Vanderpool, quote from Moon Over Manifest
“Arthur Devlin, you and my husband may have been in the same grade, but you were never in the same class.”
― Clare Vanderpool, quote from Moon Over Manifest
“But I wondered. Maybe the world wasn't made of universals that could be summed up in neat little packages. Maybe there were just people. People who were tired and hurt and lonely and kind in there own way and their own time.”
― Clare Vanderpool, quote from Moon Over Manifest
“عشق سخت است، وقتی می آید، انگار آدم زیر باری سنگین خُرد می شود!”
― Clare Vanderpool, quote from Moon Over Manifest
“For the love of Pete, Lettie, if you don’t sing something a little more cheerful, Abilene and me are going to throw you on a train and not wave goodbye.”
― Clare Vanderpool, quote from Moon Over Manifest
“And if someone pays you such a kindness as to make up a tale so you'll enjoy a gingersnap, you go along with that story and enjoy every last bite.”
― Clare Vanderpool, quote from Moon Over Manifest
“Telling a story ain’t hard,” Lettie said. “All you need is a beginning, middle, and end.”
― Clare Vanderpool, quote from Moon Over Manifest
“You cannot toss the ground aside like an old rag. Then it will not help you later. Use a hoe, there by the shed.”
― Clare Vanderpool, quote from Moon Over Manifest
“middle. That made me a bit cantankerous, because crazy as she was, I could see the sense in making a neat row of ground piled on each side to keep the moisture from running off. If ever the rain came. But time wore on, and as the dirt mingled”
― Clare Vanderpool, quote from Moon Over Manifest
“Frog legs, huh? When you were hungry most of the time, you learned to eat what you could get. Still, frog legs sounded a bit exotic even to me.”
― Clare Vanderpool, quote from Moon Over Manifest
“The ladies of each fraternal order are invited to submit squares for a special victory quilt to be signed by President Woodrow Wilson himself on his tour of the Midwest.”
― Clare Vanderpool, quote from Moon Over Manifest
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“Months of built-up hurt and frustration needed unleashing.”
― Jennifer Jaynes, quote from Never Smile at Strangers
“But their roots went deep, bound them together in a collective memory. With each new arrival, they pieced together more of their past, built more of their future.”
― Ryan Graudin, quote from Blood for Blood
“The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels.” I went back and forth over it, and translated. You know what it means? “People read.”
― Richard Feynman, quote from Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character
“The only absolute truth is change, and death is the only way to stop change. Life is a series of judgments on changing situations, and no ideal, no belief fits every solution. Yet humans need to believe in something beyond themselves. Perhaps all intelligences do. If we do not act on higher motivations, then we can justify any action, no matter how horrible, as necessary for our survival. We are endlessly caught between the need for high moral absolutes—which will fail enough that any absolute can be demonstrated as false—and our tendency for individual judgments to degenerate into self-gratifying and unethical narcissism. Trying to force absolutes on others results in death and destruction, yet failing to act beyond one's self also leads to death and destruction, generally a lot sooner.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., quote from The Parafaith War
“I suppose, like most young people nowadays, boredom is what you dread most in the world, and yet, I can assure you, there are worse things.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Towards Zero
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