203 Quotes by Lisa Wingate

Maybe these are woodpile relatives? People my grandmother doesn’t want to acknowledge as part of the family tree? Every clan must have a few of those.

At the very least, we must tell our stories, mustn’t we? Speak the names? You know, there is an old proverb that says, ‘We die once when the last breath leaves our bodies. We die a second time when the last person speaks our name.’ The first death is beyond our.

I live too often in the realm of what if. I also expend time and mental energy continually trying to anticipate what sort of crouching tiger might be hiding around the next corner.

Well, that’s one of the paradoxes of life. You can’t have it all. You can have some of this and some of that or all of this and none of that. We make the trade-offs we think are best at the time.

Most of the time when we got a tough row to plow, the Good Lord makes us fall a little short and puts another mule in the pasture. You don’t never know whether you’re the blind mule or the deaf mule, but you’re always one or the other.

I always assume people’s behaviors are a reaction to something I’ve done, not that they’re just doing their thing.

What the mind don’t ’member, the heart still know. Love, the strongest thang of all. Stronger than all the rest.

Not appreciating the noise until she was surrounded by silence.

A woman’s past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses.