203 Quotes by Lisa Wingate

Except God don’t create accidents. We only think there are accidents because we don’t know what God has in mind.

I’m trying to impress upon my students that everyone has a history. Just because we’re not always happy with what’s true doesn’t mean we shouldn’t know it. It’s how we learn. It’s how we do better in the future. Hopefully, anyway.

I am momentarily struck silent. Clean that junk out? What kind of a Neanderthal talks about books that way?

Happiness is not in getting what you want, but in learning to want what you get. Don’t waste your time crying over what you’re not given. When you have tears in your eyes, you can’t see all the beautiful things around you.

We all have scars.

I want a pain I understand instead of the one I don’t.

Even the ramparts of reputation, and ambition, and social position couldn’t erase the love of sisters, their bond with one another. Suddenly, the barriers that created their need for hidden lives and secret meeting places seem almost as cruel as those of brokered adoptions, altered paperwork, and forced separations.

Arney brought me back so I could go forward.

It’s funny how family histories seem to differ, depending on whom you ask.