26 Quotes by Patti Callahan Henry

She could not drown the pain; it knew how to breath underwater.So she’d learned to swim.

Cheating and lying aren’t struggles, they’re reasons to break up.

What fills the eye fills the heart.

Let the story settle inside you. Let it move and twist around until you see what it has to say to you.

There were some things that needed to be said even if the person you were saying them to didn’t understand; words that must be released from their trapped place where their flapping to get out could cause internal damage.

Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you. – Hafez.

The lowest ebb brings the highest tide.

We do what we can with what we know at the time, and with what we believe.

It is not about how it ends; it is about the journey. The full story. You have to know the full story to care about or know the ending.