Quotes from Undressing the Moon

T. Greenwood ·  352 pages

Rating: (752 votes)


“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
See more on GoodReads

Popular quotes

“She stood on the edge of night, that sliver of gray between darkness and dawn, that razor-thin line separating the first part of her life and whatever lay ahead.”
― Anne Blankman, quote from Prisoner of Night and Fog


“... Full of old cockatoos who used to be rich and aren't any longer, but they cling to yesterday tooth and nail, preferring to live on bread and sardines rather than sell what little they have left of their faded glory.”
― María Dueñas, quote from The Time in Between


“When you steal a book, you steal from the world." the Library propaganda said”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Ink and Bone


“Gravity ruled, and gravity did not take into account circumstances, or the unfairness of things, or listen to eleventh-hour petitions before reluctantly repealing its laws. Gravity crushed,”
― Alastair Reynolds, quote from Revelation Space


“Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.”
― Elizabeth Moon, quote from The Speed of Dark


Interesting books

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
(24.7K)
The Man Who Was Thur...
by G.K. Chesterton
Einstein: His Life and Universe
(83.4K)
Einstein: His Life a...
by Walter Isaacson
Flat-Out Love
(53.6K)
Flat-Out Love
by Jessica Park
UnEnchanted
(37.3K)
UnEnchanted
by Chanda Hahn
The Black Echo
(122K)
The Black Echo
by Michael Connelly
The Lost World
(98.4K)
The Lost World
by Michael Crichton

About BookQuoters

BookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.

We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, and choose the ones that are most thought-provoking. Each quote represents a book that is interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. We also accept submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing to the BookQuoters community.

Founded in 2023, BookQuoters has quickly become a large and vibrant community of people who share an affinity for books. Books are seen by some as a throwback to a previous world; conversely, gleaning the main ideas of a book via a quote or a quick summary is typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. We feel that we have the best of both worlds at BookQuoters; we read books cover-to-cover but offer you some of the highlights. We hope you’ll join us.