43 Quotes by Barbara Claypole White

Our son is a brilliant teenager who needs to learn independence. You baby – ” “He’s a remarkable person who should be full of insecurity but isn’t – partly because I work hard to bolster him, to praise him, to show him what an incredible person he is, to reinforce that his challenges give him strength, not weakness. I never stop, Felix.” “I.

Life isn’t perfect, and people sure as heck aren’t. We’re broken and messy and a hornet’s nest of contradictions.

Maybe the dead never really left; maybe everything circled round in a big blur, until endings became beginnings and the wheels of life started moving again.

Mistakes are human. Learn from them, but leave regret where it belongs – in the past. It’s the future we need to pay heed to.

His heart, well, it’s big enough to feed the world, the way I see it.” “My.

As hoped, the place was semideserted.

If you’re too busy worrying about what might be, you forget to enjoy what you have.

Passengers in the row behind muttered the Lord’s Prayer. Ella, however, had no plans to make her final peace with God or die in the clouds. She had a battle to conduct on the ground, after she’d cleared baggage claim at the Raleigh-Durham International Airport.

When Harry was awake, the house was littered with the perennially half-finished: a glass of orange juice left on the island for two hours; soda cans moved to the sink but not rinsed out and dumped in the recycling; dirty crockery left on the counter and not scraped, rinsed, washed, and slotted in the dish rack to dry.