24 Quotes by Ann Howard Creel

eyes running over me like the work of a hundred biting ants

One can't step into the river twice

Sometimes you do find what you're looking for closer than you think

I’ve often wondered, even to this day, why during painful times some people seem to step away from themselves and make decisions that fall far out of their usual line of character and behaviour. Perhaps a natural reluctance to sit still is central, or perhaps, like the lesser animals, instinct forces us to go on even if grief has left us not up to the task…. In one fleeting moment, I stripped away the petals of my future, let them catch wind, and fly away

At that moment, I wished with everything in my body that things could be different. I wished I could pluck out the threads of him that I didn’t care for and keep the ones I liked. But then again, I knew that people couldn’t be pulled apart in that way. Those severed threads would just cause the whole of him to unravel.

Memories are fragile things to hold, but many times, it’s what we have.

Did love always come joined with a certain amount of trepidation? Along with the good feelings, was there always dread that something wouldn’t go right or that love could be lost? Love and fear seemed twined like stalks of a grapevine – so close they couldn’t be separated.

I don’t envy him. I think he’s made too much money. The more material things you have, the more you have to lose.

She also knew that the story you made up in your mind was rarely the real story.