19 Quotes by Vaddey Ratner

Knowing comes from learning, finding from seeking.

I said nothing. Deep inside of me, my voice screamed from a hole where I had buried it

words, you see," he said, looking at me again, "allow us to make permanent what is essentially transient.Turn a world filled with injustice and hurt into a place that is beautiful and lyrical.

A story, I had learned, through my own constant knitting and reknitting of remembered words, can lead us back to ourselves, to our lost innocence, and in the shadow it casts over our present world, we begin to understand what we only intuited in our naivete-that while all else may vanish, love is our one eternity.

Love hides in all sorts of places, in the most sorrowful corner of your heart, in the darkest and most hopeless situation

I thought maybe we mourned not only for the dead but also for the living. We felt their absence before we knew for sure they were gone.

... love is our one eternity. It reflects itself in joy and grief, in my father's sudden knowledge that he would not live to protect me, and in his determination to leave behind a part of himself - his spirit, his humanity - to illuminate my path, give light to my darkened world.

Truth, she believed, lies in what is said as much as in what isn't, in the same way that a melody not only is a sequence of audible notes but encompasses the spaces and pauses in between. When listening to music, you must learn to take in even the atmosphere of an echo.

He supposes in this way he's learned to pray not as one might to the gods but as one does by simply pausing every now and then to think of others.