25 Quotes by Monica Wood

I'm forty-two," he said. "That's eighty-four in musician years.

This night I'm thinking of, it had one of those skies where the stars looked poured from a barrel.

There is no such thing as wasted writing.

The packet of fading photos gives it away if you know how to look: always a rundown porch landing and stair rails behind, always a child squinting into strong sunlight and a grim-faced adult skulking in shadow. What must it have been like to grow up in that silence?

It took years for me to know this, to see how loss can tighten your grip on the things still possible to hold.

I have always loved books for their reassuring heft, for their promise of new words, for their air of mystery, for their characters who lived in them, for the sublime pleasure of disappearing. But not until now, at the threshold of this perilous summer, have I ever turned to storybooks for instruction.

Convince is for thought; persuade is for action.

The shape of our family has been upended and rearranged, its roof flattened, its gateposts ripped from the earth by God’s own brutal hand, and only the animals know enough to make a run for it.

A busload of pilgrims today on journeys they never chose, having once believed themselves born for more than this.