Quotes from work

A Northern Light

“I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.”

“Sometimes, when you catch someone unaware at just the right time and in just the right light, you can catch sight of what they will be.”

“But words are more powerful than anything.”

“Make them care, Mattie,' she said softly. 'And don't you ever be sorry.'
-Emily Wilcox”

“I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people.”

“It's another sin. Worse than all the other ones, which are immediate, violent and hot… It's the eighth deadly sin. The one God left out, Hope.”

“Cripes Miss Wilcox, they're not guns,' I said.
No, they're not Mattie, they're books. And a hundred times more dangerous.”

“You can't argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word.”

“For the first time, I saw what was in his heart, and I wondered if he might ever want to look deep enough to see mine.”

“Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.”

“You should spend more time reading the Good Book and less reading all those novels. What are you going to tell the Lord on Judgement Day when He asks you why you didn't read your bible? Hmm?"I said. To myself.”

“Never take what's offered, always ask for more.”

“A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping.”