Quotes from Undressing the Moon

T. Greenwood ·  352 pages

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“Hope is really just desire disguised, just desperation, aching, dressed up like a prayer.”
― T. Greenwood, quote from Undressing the Moon


“We pretended she'd only gotten lost in the colors of fall.

Piper”
― T. Greenwood, quote from Undressing the Moon


“Sometimes things need to get broken”
― T. Greenwood, quote from Undressing the Moon


“We lived among people whose poverty could be seen in the length of their faces, in their tired speech and in the heaviness of their eyes.”
― T. Greenwood, quote from Undressing the Moon


“My mother taught me how to find grace in wreckage. She taught me not how to reassemble, but how to rearrange. The stained-glass pictures she made were certain evidence that things can be broken and put back together, and that the mended thing will be more beautiful than the original.”
― T. Greenwood, quote from Undressing the Moon



“That's the way with sentimental things: it's the memory the junk conjures that's valuable, not the junk itself.”
― T. Greenwood, quote from Undressing the Moon


About the author

T. Greenwood
Born place: in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, The United States
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