17 Quotes by Patti Callahan

It wasn't a wedding a small girl dreams of - the white lace dress and a flowing veil. There were no bridesmaids or a symphony orchestra or long trails of white roses. But what does a small girl know of real love?

I must know when it is enough. And I must trust God — again and again I was learning and relearning to trust the truth who had entered my sons’ nursery. The rusty and decrepit habit of trusting in only myself, only abiding in my own ability to make things happen, died hard and slow.

You tolerate what you must when it becomes your reality.

This business of dying wasn't as simple as surrender to the great light. It was real and dirty and untidy.

Inside my mind I heard Bill, but when I opened my eyes to Jack, I knew whatever Bill believed or whatever he'd written did not and could not affect the love that breathed between Jack and me. I understood for the first time the apostle Paul's words, "Death, where is your sting?

Desperation fuels one to believe idiocy is insight

And now here you are, at peace in your Garden of Eden with your brother and your acreage and your students and your Inklings and you friends and your quaint town. All these things both inspire you and protect you. But a change might be in order. Not a change that disrupts, but one that expands." I paused. "Let new things touch your soul.

Do you ever think about writing one more Narnian chronicle? Just one more? Because you know it will sell?""I think it's best to put an end to it when the readers are clamouring for more rather than when they're weary of the whole everlasting thing. There will be seven of them published in seven years. Sometimes you must know when it is enough.