Quotes from The Time Between

“There is how we
were before, and how we are now, and the time between is spent choosing
which doors to open, and which to close.”
― Karen White, quote from The Time Between

“Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.”
― Karen White, quote from The Time Between

“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”
― Karen White, quote from The Time Between

“Things do not always work out as we have planned, do they? Sometimes the hardest thing is not to just survive the grief, but to step around it and move on. It helps if your suitcases are not so full.”
― Karen White, quote from The Time Between

“There are no completely good or bad people. Everybody makes mistakes, or bad choices. It's how we live with them that make us the people we are.”
― Karen White, quote from The Time Between

“Time is a funny thing. It can take some people a whole lifetime before they realize they've been playing tug-of-war all by themselves.”
― Karen White, quote from The Time Between

“I've found that you can't measure happiness the way you measure yards in a race. You just learn to recognize it when it arrives so you can enjoy it while it lasts.”
― Karen White, quote from The Time Between

“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.”
― Karen White, quote from The Time Between

“There was so much we didn't know, so much we would never know. The secrets of the dead are always kept.”
― Karen White, quote from The Time Between

“But maybe everybody was like that, all of us living the lives we had to while dreaming of the lives we wanted.”
― Karen White, quote from The Time Between

“We all make choices, Miss Szarka. And if it doesn't work out the way we wanted it to, we can spend a lifetime blaming ourselves or blaming others. Either way, we've spent a lifetime blaming instead of a lifetime doing other things...I think the possibilities for second chances are everywhere if we just look hard enough." Eve”
― Karen White, quote from The Time Between

“Sometimes hope is all we have, and to lose that is to lose all.”
― Karen White, quote from The Time Between

“...hearing again the words from the Gullah woman, All shut-eye ain't sleep; all good-bye ain't gone.”
― Karen White, quote from The Time Between

“Must take care of de root for to heal de tree.”
― Karen White, quote from The Time Between

“The feelings I had for my sister were jumbled together, like the monkeys in a barrel game we'd had as children. All the brightly colored monkeys with their curved arms tangled and entwined, so convoluted that it was almost impossible to separate them.”
― Karen White, quote from The Time Between

“I was starting to realize how much the presence of a child could make adults act more like adults.”
― Karen White, quote from The Time Between

“...feelings of hurt and betrayal and utter loss poured through me like batter hitting a hot skillet.”
― Karen White, quote from The Time Between

“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.”
― Karen White, quote from The Time Between

“It's good to be a little nervous. God compensates those with a lack of talent with an overabundance of self-confidence. -Gigi”
― Karen White, quote from The Time Between

“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”
― Karen White, quote from The Time Between

“is how we were before, and how we are now,”
― Karen White, quote from The Time Between

“is how we were before, and how we are now, and the time between is spent choosing which doors to open, and which to close.”
― Karen White, quote from The Time Between

“Everyone needed to be reminded of the person he or she had once hoped to be.”
― Karen White, quote from The Time Between

“Two for the past. For the one we wish we had and for the one we have to live with.”
― Karen White, quote from The Time Between

“Is that what happened as a mother grew older? She saw her children as adults she could confide in, despite how painful or revealing the subject matter? It seemed, almost, that because I was an adult I’d suddenly ceased to be her child.”
― Karen White, quote from The Time Between

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“We lie under the sheet
after making love, speaking
of loneliness
relieved in a book
relived in a book
so on that page
the clot and fissure
of it appears
words of a man
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a naked word
entering the clot
a hand grasping
through bars:

deliverance

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“The marquess held the weapon out, as formally as if he were passing a sword.
Soberly, Ned accepted it. He placed the sacrificial citrus on the table in front of him, and then with one careful
incision, eviscerated it. He speared deep into its heart, his
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“Enough.” She reached out and covered his hand midstab.
“It’s dead now,” she explained gravely.
He pulled his hand away and nodded. Lord Blakely took back his knife and cleaned it with a handkerchief.
Jenny studied the corpse. It was orange. It was pulpy. It
was going to be a mess to clean up. Most importantly, it gave her an excuse to sit and think of something mystical to say—the only reason for this exercise, really. Lord Blakely
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“You, our God, are kind, true, patient, And govern all things in mercy. 2 For even if we sin, we belong to You and know Your might; But we will not sin, Because we know that we are counted as belonging to You. 3 For to know You is complete righteousness, And to know Your might is the root of immortality.†”
― quote from The Orthodox Study Bible

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