Katharine Weber quotes

“Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.”
-- Katharine Weber

Source : Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.118, Crown

#Loss Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Ends Quotes

“But when I say it isn't meant for anyone's eyes, I don't mean it in the sense of one of those novel manuscripts people keep in a drawer, insisting they don't care if anyone else ever reads it or not.The people I have known who do that, I am convinced, have no faith in themselves as writers and know, deep down, that the novel is flawed, that they don't know how to tell the story, or they don't understand what the story is, or they haven't really got a story to tell. The manuscript in the drawer is the story.”
-- Katharine Weber

Source : Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.16, Crown

#Mean Quotes #Eye Quotes #People Quotes

“I am in awe of the perpetual tumult of the sea. I am moved by the still place on the horizon where the sky begins. I am stirred by the soaring and dipping fields that make the landscape into a rumpled green counterpane. I thought I would never have such powerful feelings again. I thought I would live through the rest of my life having experiences, and thoughts, but I never thought I would again feel deeply-- I was convinced that my wounds had healed and become thick scars, essentially numb.”
-- Katharine Weber

Source : Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.19, Crown

#Powerful Quotes #Sea Quotes #Sky Quotes

“Majestic and stately as Conrad Richter''s Awakening Land Trilogy, Evangeline is a big book from a big mind.”
-- Katharine Weber

#Book Quotes #Land Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-person narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly original child whose deadpan certainties are a beguiling invitation to readers of all ages.”
-- Katharine Weber

#Children Quotes #Age Quotes #Narrative Quotes

“I do love competence in a man.”
-- Katharine Weber

Source : Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.23, Crown

#Men Quotes #Competence Quotes

“This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.”
-- Katharine Weber

#Mind Quotes #Literature Quotes #Great Minds Quotes

“It must never be forgotten that nothing that is really great in this world has ever been achieved by coalitions, but that it has always been the success of a single victor. Coalition successes bear by the very nature of their origin the germ of future crumbling, in fact of the loss of what has already been achieved. Great, truly world-shaking revolutions of a spiritual nature are not even conceivable and realizable except as the titanic struggles of individual formations, never as enterprises of coalitions.”

Source : Robert Fitzgerald, Ed Dowling, Bill W. (1995). “The Soul of Sponsorship: The Friendship of Fr. Ed Dowling, S. J. and Bill Wilson in Letters”, p.32, Hazelden Publishing

“Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.”

“Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.”

“Sometimes what we want isn't what's best for us - Della”

Source : Abbi Glines (2013). “Simple Perfection: A Novel”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

“We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.”

“Sometimes you can gradually improve things. But sometimes, they don't work, and you've just got to just say: Let's grind this baby to a halt.”

“Sometimes, all it takes is your smile (even if forced) & a domino effect of smiles happen ... infectious.”

“Delete, delete, delete and at the end find the ‘core aspect of the design’”

“Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.”

“Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being. ”