41 Quotes by Hazel Gaynor

I suppose people move on, history moves on, and there will, sadly, always be something more terrible waiting around the corner.

We can’t always change the situations life puts us in, but we can change the way we respond.

There is more to every photograph than what we see-more to the story than the one the camera captures on the plate. You have to look behind the picture to discover the truth.

At the bottom of the ravine was a glittering stream, about two feet in depth and six feet wide. A waterfall plunged from a shelf of shale rock to the right, tumbling in three broad steps toward the stream, where the water bubbled and boiled. Dappled shade from the trees cast intriguing shadows onto the water, while the flickering sunlight painted the early spring foliage in shades of gold and emerald and soft buttery yellow.

They tell you that it will pass, that there’ll be a day when you wake up and your heart doesn’t ache, a day when you don’t cry, but laugh and smile and remember the person you’ve lost with great fondness. You can’t believe that day will ever come. But it does, doesn’t it? Somehow, it does.

We have to believe in the possibility of happy endings, sure we do, otherwise what’s it all for?

We women are not as sheltered from the world as we once were. War is opening the world up for us. What sad irony is that?

In that moment, and perhaps for much longer, it seemed to me that the possibility of believing in fairies was more important than one little girl telling the truth.

For there is no friend like a sister In calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray, To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands. – Christina Rossetti, “Goblin Market,” 1862.