Sarah Wylie quotes

“Most people think the biggest sacrifice, the greates act of love you can give is to die for someone. And probably it is. But Sometimes it is the opposite. The biggest thing you can do for someone is to live.”
-- Sarah Wylie

#Love You Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Her expression falls slightly as she senses that my walls are up and she's not nearly strong enough to climb over. Not even today when she is leukaemia's version of Superwoman.”
-- Sarah Wylie

#Strong Quotes #Wall Quotes #Fall Quotes

“My heart throbs and aches and, for once, it's not for myself. It's for all of us. It's for everyone who knows what it's like to be helpless, to have to watch on the sidelines, to be paralyzed, literally unable to do anything.”
-- Sarah Wylie

Source : Sarah Wylie (2012). “All These Lives”, p.243, Macmillan

#Heart Quotes #Watches Quotes #Ache Quotes

“This is how it feels to die: It starts from outside and works its way in.”
-- Sarah Wylie

Source : Sarah Wylie (2012). “All These Lives”, p.1, Macmillan

#Way Quotes #Feels Quotes

“Even now, it's still hard for him to say it. I don't blame him. It's an icky word. Why couldn't whoever was in charge of naming things call cancer 'sugar' and sugar, 'cancer'? People might not eat so much of the stuff then. And it's so much more pleasant to die of sugar.”
-- Sarah Wylie

Source : Sarah Wylie (2012). “All These Lives”, p.67, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

#Cancer Quotes #People Quotes #Naming Things Quotes

“My heart jumps out of its cage to see what the fuss is about. Damn thing. Always so hopeful, but my voice hides it well.”
-- Sarah Wylie

#Heart Quotes #Voice Quotes #Hopeful Quotes

“I love you Rush Finlay. You are going to be the best husband and father the world has ever known. One day our son’s wife will be thankful that her husband will have had you for a role model. She’ll be lucky because of you. Because you will have raised our son to be the man that you are. He’ll love her completely because he’ll know how.”

“Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.”

“Everything eaten is killed. Every meal is a sacrifice.”

“This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise for every truly human culture... The basic attitude from which such activity arises, we call-to distinguish it from egoism and selfishness-idealism. By this we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.”

“Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.”

Source : Song: Almost Lover, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007

“Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.”

“Think it over, think it under.”

“Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.”

“Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.”

“Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.”