Patti Callahan Henry quotes

Souls bound together can't be forever torn apart by distance and neither by death.
-- Patti Callahan Henry

#Distance #Forever #Soul

Sometimes we know who we want to be and what we want to do long... long before we know how to get there.
-- Patti Callahan Henry

#Relationship #Long #Want

The choices we make when we're broken are sometimes the most awful of all our choices.
-- Patti Callahan Henry

#Broken #Choices #Awful

A broken heart, too much cold beer, ocean waves and a willing man were never a good combination, no matter what the country songs said.
-- Patti Callahan Henry

#Broken Heart #Summer #Country

Grief wraps around people, takes them to a place they would not go otherwise.
-- Patti Callahan Henry

#Grief #People #Wraps

This is now and forever - the moment everyone must have, the moment that encompasses all other moments; now and before, now and after: all time.
-- Patti Callahan Henry

#Forever #Moments #Time Passes

There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it. We are led on and on, and yet in some strange way we never lose control.

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.

Finally he closed the distance between us and kissed me - a sweet, gentle kiss that held within it every single one of the thousand days I'd loved him as my everything, long after I'd begun to love him as a friend.

Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.

Good because I want you too. Now. Forever. Just you

I never imagined anyone like you, Blaire. But every time I think about forever with you, I’m humbled that you chose me.

You and I are just like a blade of grass sitting here; we are going to wither and die. "But the word of the Lord endures forever"

Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance.

I held his gaze. I could see the storm in his eyes. I knew he was confused. I could see the fear. Then there was the love. I saw it. The fierceness in his eyes. I believed it. I could see it clearly. But it was too late now. The love wasn't enough. Everyone always said that love was enough. It wasn't. Not when your soul was shattered.

I just bared my soul to you and all I get is an ‘okay’?