143 Quotes by Karen White

Jumping to conclusions is often the only exercise some people get, and is always easier than finding the patience to discover the truth.

Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt, thank you very much. Have no interest in a repeat performance.” So.

Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi’s incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive sweetness before grabbing your heart and pulling it under.

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

The word that came to me now was “defiant.” Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of her life and instead of shaking a fist, pick up a hammer.

Maybe with Sara’s accident he had finally begun to see that life continued after a fall and that the hands that reached to pull you out didn’t have to be your own.

She thought of the horse with his scars and wondered if having them so visible wasn’t preferable to the hidden kind where nobody knew how to avoid the parts that still hurt.

It’s not only ghosts who haunt us. Our memories follow us through life, surprising us now and again when we are forced to turn around and look behind us.

But I think sometimes a person has to be forced underwater to see if they’re going to drown or swim.