15 Quotes by Beth Ann Fennelly

But remember that reading provides nourishment for hungers we might not even be aware of. How often have I chosen a book at random and found in it an answer I didn’t realize I was seeking.

Already I was learning that some of the things I was learning weren’t things I’d need to know.

I would not be okay for so long that when okay arrived it couldn’t place me.

She reads his poems gratefully in her small Mississippi town. It’s an undramatic life, yet these past months she seems to have found the intensity he yearns for, This also sounds like bragging, though she doesn’t mean it to. If she could, she’d let him bear her secret. She’d let all great men bear it, for s few hours. Then, when she too it back, they’d remember how it feels to be inhabited.

Whether you’re explaining where pets go when they die or teaching your child to recycle, your philosophies have ramifications. For the rest of history, echos of your voice will be heard.

I stopped trying to rank sorrow, realized that the world has sorrow enough for all of us, and when some of it falls to you the best hope you have is letting yourself suffer through it.