"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless..." ~Stephen King
"Time is a funny thing. You can't define it, can't buy it, can't predict its effect on people. Some people need more, some people need less. Take whatever time you need." ~Danielle Steel "Safe Harbour"
"Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again." ~Stephen Kind "The Stand"
"All of life's strange twists and turns never led where you expected them to. It was impossible to even guess one's destiny" ~Danielle Steel "Safe Harbour"
"The point is this: that the stream of a memory may lead you to a river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness." ~Wally Lamb " I Know This Much Is True"
"Love ain't somethin' lak uh grindstone dat's de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everything it touch. Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore" ~Zora Neale Hurston "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
"It's funny how people learned to survive. One learned to make due, and to make shift, and subsitute, and rely on friends instead of mates and spouses. They became family to each other, huddled together like people in a lifeboat in a storm." ~Danielle Steel "Safe Harbour"
"It would have been so much easier to never try, to never touch at all, to run away and hide, while protecting old wounds. Instead, they had dared, they had danced. They had trudged on through the dark and the cold, defied the demons, faced the terrors, and refused to run away. It was more than just an act of love they were celebrating that day, it was an act of courage, and of faith, and hope and belief. All the bits and pieces had come together, the tiny threads, loosely bound at first, and now carefully threaded and woven into the fabric of their new life. It was above all a choice they had made, not to give in to death, but to embrace life. A choice not so easily made. They had found what they wanted and fought for it, until they reached safe harbor, and escaped the storms at last." ~Danielle Steel "Safe Harbour"
