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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d28e002 | not so heartbreaking. So it was with me after Tom's death. In retrospect, I look at myself and my friends and I think that some of us are offered early warnings. The death of a loved one, a serious illness, the struggle of a marriage, or the despair of loneliness--as tragic as these events are, they serve to box us in as clearly as any clever plot structure, forcing us to make a choice. I choose to live. Each day to the hilt. I want to hug .. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| 8c2f287 | This magical song took them all far from the muted peace of the suburban blocks they were familiar with, far, farther back to their youth, when they were smooth skinned, slim and sassy, when they walked the city streets with swinging hips, when their worlds delivered pearls. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| aa39e71 | You don't have to say thank you. I'm your mother. It's my job. My pleasure. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| b3846fa | It gives us a better perspective of our place. We hold our history so dear, our politics so tight. But in the fullness of time, all histories fade. Rome, Ephesus, the Incan and Mayan cultures. The wheel of time turns round and round and proves change is part of nature. The problem comes in trying to interfere with nature or to think we know more than nature. Our failures are humbling. The more I learn, the more I see that, in the end, natur.. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| f56490e | waves | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| 6a32767 | To feel nature as a child is much more important than just being able to list names of birds, or plants or animals. That kind of heart isn't something you can teach a child in books. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| ad7f172 | The beach, the ocean, solitude--these are only a means to help you travel to the true peace and joy inside you. You must carry the magic in your heart, wherever you go. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| 37a6ef2 | short laugh. "Time will tell with you and Bobby Pearlman," | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| e58fb1c | People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel . . . but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings make.' " She put her hands on Dora's shoulders. "Do you know who said that?" "No." "Your namesake. Eudora Welty." | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| 4cc4f13 | and highlighted with bold streaks | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| da2a3dd | Life, if lived well, was enjoying random acts of kindness that elicited joy from giver and receiver alike. Each time she was reminded of this, she vowed to try to be a better giver than a receiver. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| 8781219 | The butterfly is the totem of transformation and change and a symbol of courage. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| aac93d2 | In every life, there was death and rebirth and continuity. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| 936b7ce | The secet to happiness is to embrace the humility to accept what comes and the courage to continue on your life's path with an open heart | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| 8e5f7b6 | worry about you, Caretta. You are a strong woman, true enough. But strength without flexibility makes one hard. Come September, when those fierce winds blow in from the sea, those hardwoods crack, splinter and fall. But the pliant palms are resilient and they bend with the wind. This is the secret of a Southern woman. Strength, resilience and beauty. We are never hard. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| b71220b | they can come down to your flat for a visit, and, worst of all, all they can talk | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| 8e944df | It was the very image of innocence. I wanted to remember this moment always, to look at it when I needed something good to hold on to. | family stronger mental-illness | Mary Alice Monroe | |
| 2a2761d | She captured the singular moment in her mind, with the sun shining on their faces, knowing she'd keep it in her memory forever like a treasured photograph. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| ca69ae8 | Intuition guides us and the wise person listens. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| 53dda77 | I think everyone should take time at least once a week to catch a sunrise, just to feel alive and that there is hope. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| 2288151 | Her fear kept her as caged as her canaries. The glass windows were no different than their metal bars. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| d209818 | Wichita. The roads here are flat and I can see for miles. Easy driving. Times like these, I wish you were sitting here beside me chatting, instead | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| 955aade | Power isn't telling someone what to do, she told herself. Strength isn't having the upper hand. Nobility and grace are revealed in the manner in which love is given. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| d15a815 | I think everyone should take time, at least once a week, to catch a sunrise. Just to feel alive and that there's hope. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| 7edc9c0 | Light helps define a place. Here the light has color. It changes throughout the day and it's unpredictable. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| 479691b | month's | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| 596ce79 | Perhaps he kept surprising her, she pondered, because she was limiting him in her mind. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| 2c127db | sculpting is really a long series of decisions. When you make good ones, you have a product you like. When you make a bad one, you toss it and start again. And there are always lots of bad decisions. But the good ones are worth waiting for. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| fc9a24d | Grief can make you question your goals and purpose. How you want to spend your life. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| 71e15a2 | They were specific about symptoms of grief--the sensations of choking, shortness of breath, feelings of emptiness, endless crying. But nothing warned her that when she wasn't experiencing those symptoms of anguish, all that was left was a sense of meaninglessness. A great, vast gray space of nothingness | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| 9a6836c | Mamaw lounged in her robe on the back porch, feet up on the ottoman, sipping coffee and reading the Post & Courier. Today was her birthday! Eighty years of living . . . Who'd have guessed it? She felt she'd earned the right to be decadently lazy today. Her past was behind her and she'd lived a full life. She didn't like to think her best was behind her as well, but she was realistic that this might be true. Still, it was a blessing to live .. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| 7361fc8 | Love wasn't hard, she thought. Losing love was. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| ae17b87 | The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| eb99eda | I would rather die of passion than of boredom. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| 79ba0ff | I wouldn't be worth my salt as a mother if I didn't pass on the family recipes. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| d7eee3d | She left home in a huff of tears and landed in Chicago. That soaring city on Lake Michigan suited her outspoken, rebellious ways more than the delicately mannered, cultured city of Charleston ever had. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| 244bfa1 | We can only do what we can live with. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| fa5d24e | A woman's life has so many demands because she is the axis around which so many little planets spin. I did it and, yes, there were countless delightful moments. But that part of my life died when Stratton did. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| f96df64 | Money and emotion were never a good combination. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| 7d2b8e9 | Privacy is something that we maintain for the good of ourselves and others. Secrecy we keep to separate ourselves from others, even those we love. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| 9dec719 | I'm just saying there's no excuse for a man to hit a woman. None. Period. But verbal beatings can be worse. More insidious, in that the scars aren't visible. Words can be killers. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| ca20a67 | People always seem to be in so much of a hurry," Lovie continued as she sat down breathlessly in the sand. "Rush, rush, rush. What are they rushing toward? Life isn't some kind of race. We all cross the same finish line, sooner or later. You'd hate to get the end in sight and suddenly wish you'd walked rather than run, wouldn't you?" "Maybe that's why they call it the human race." | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| cd60546 | She never wanted to hurt anyone's feelings. But in the end, she hurt herself. | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| 115e25d | It time for me to shed all my insecurities and fears. Let them fall to the ground. It's time for me to find my voice and fly. | Mary Alice Monroe |