7 Quotes by Catherine Burns

No matter how horrible your day is, and no matter how scary your night is, everything can turn on a dime. When there's a knock on the door. And music, and joy, arrive. - Taylor Negron, California Gothic

Just walk fearlessly into the house of mourning, for grief is just love squaring up to its oldest enemy. And after all these mortal human years, love is up to the challenge.

I stopped asking for time, and thought about time well spent.

I’m thinking about the fact that we imagine that we live in the light. We imagine we can foresee what’s gonna happen. We imagine we can control everything: I’m gonna do this, and I’m gonna do that. But the reality is, almost all of us are just stumbling along in the dark, searching, trying to reach some kind of home, while we’re juggling all these balls and hopefully on most days keeping them afloat.

Brave men are always afraid. Courage isn’t the absence of fear. It’s the willingness – the guts, if you like – to face the fear.

A friend of mine once told me that the grass is greener where you water it: I had forgotten to water the grass.

She was God’s gift to our family. I described how she’s buried on our farm, and when our family got together to try to think of what to put on her tombstone, we found this saying: “All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” I said to the judge, “Love is that candle. Love does not seek another death. Love brings life and healing and wholeness.