quote by quote

obviously, i need to get back on track with this blog.  i have not been doing well with it, by any means.  i thought i would catch up to may just by sharing some of the quotes from the books that i have read thus far.  after this, i will hopefully be better about keeping up with life. 

"i had my whole life planned.  i knew exactly where it was taking me." {water for elephants, sara gruen}

"keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles i hard work, but important." {water for elephants, sara gruen}

"people always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters.  but that's not true, is it?  you know, and i know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more." {handle with care, jodi picoult}

"families were never what you wanted them to be.  we all wanted what we couldn't have:  the perfect child, the doting husband, the mother who wouldn't let go.  we live in our grown-up dollhouses completely unaware that, at any moment, a hand might come in and change around everything we'd become accustomed to." {handle with care, jodi picoult}

"i shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth." {handle with care, jodi picoult}

"maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - i guess that's where you and i are different.  see, i thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way." {handle with care, jodi picoult}

"the first time you share tea with a balit, you are a stranger.  the second time you take tea, you are an honored guest.  the third time you share a cup of tea, you become family." {three cups of tea, greg mortenson}

"what we are trying to do may be just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."  {three cups of tea, greg mortenson}

"it is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.  hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility." {the scarlet letter, nathaniel hawthorne}

"women made the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting." {the secret life of bees, sue monk kidd}

"'you know, somethings don't matter that much, lily.  like the color of a house.  how big is that in the overall scheme of life?  but lifting a person's heart--now that matters.  the whole problem with people is-'...'the problem is they know what matters, but they don't choose it.'" {the secret life of bees, sue monk kidd}

"'there's a fullness of time for things, lily.  you have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.'" {the secret life of bees, sue monk kidd}