21 Quotes by Karen White

The whole reason why I’d left was to start over and pretend I didn’t have a past.

Everything I’ve ever learned has brought me to this one conclusion – we are all thrown into this world without a road map, and it’s up to us to muddle through. We are free to make a mess of it or to make a success out of our lives. Most of us choose something in between.

I was like a child leaving a gift unwrapped, the anticipation more exciting than the reality.

But I don’t believe in luck. I believe that love creates good fortune and builds empires, and it’s doubt and envy that destroy both.

Ceecee told me to wait to get married, to be sure. Not about how much I loved him, but how much I could bear to lose.

Grief was like that, Ceecee had learned. It either opened your heart or closed it.

I don’t hold on grudges, you know. They’re like expired milk in the fridge.

Because she needed ore than sleep. She needed oblivion.

But time changed all things, oxidizing friendships like old copper pots, so they no longer saw their reflection in each other’s faces.