21 Quotes by Tracy Guzeman

Why do we lack the capacity to celebrate small bits of perfection? Unless it's obvious on a grand scale, it's not worth acknowledging. I find that extremely tiresome.""Birds are perfect. Yet most people completely overlook them.""Well, if birds are perfect, then you are as well. And I can't imagine anyone failing to notice you, Alice.

His voice was everything she equated with home.

Why do I seem to have this effect on women? They're around me and they cry.

She told me she'd chosen something for the headstone, part of a verse from Psalm eighty-four- 'Yea, the sparrow hath found an house.' I never got to see it; the headstone was being engraved.""'And the swallow a nest for herself.' That was one of my mother's favorite psalms," he said.

We turned into each other’s best excuse for not doing the things we were afraid of.

She pulled off the road when she was halfway there, parking the car in a spot where the grass had turned from supple green to crisp gold. The air in midafternoon was laced with the smell of things gone to ground. Beech leaves curled in on themselves, brushed with the dull finish of autumn; the shadbush blazed scarlet.

Before too much longer I’ll forget her minute imperfections. That’s what you end up missing the most, those little faults. They burrow under your skin. Become endearing in retrospect.

Your parents were far from saints, Alice. It would be generous to say they were ordinary people who made some very serious mistakes. Don't make them out to be perfect. That’s too thin a wire for anyone to be able to keep their balance.

Isn’t that an odd thing for a parent to wish for a child? That he would be less than what he is?