Celine
Peter Heller
Top 10 Best Quotes
“No: Human beings, by orders of magnitude, remained the most vicious animal on the planet.”
“There might not be a measure of happiness left in a life, but there could be beauty and grace and endless love.”
“Sometimes now I think just making it through a day is the point. Practically a triumph, don't you think? If you don't melt down or kill anyone or just give up? If you happen to be kind, or help someone else, or create something beautiful, well, you've really done something to crow about.”
“Happiness was not a word that seemed to apply anymore, when she had lost so many close to her. There was a contentment that felt deeper, that acknowledged and accepted the quieter offerings of small joys—of love and occasional peace in a life that was full of pain.”
“One thing Pete had learned over the years as a participant in so many disparate cultures, and as a family historian, is that almost nothing that can be imagined is impossible, and that, in fact, most of those things, in one form or another, have occurred. Scary really.”
“The most indisputable beauty may be the one that people cannot ever touch. That God exists up there somehow, in the peaks and remote lakes and the sharp wind. Who knows why that picture stirs joy. It speaks directly to our impermanence and our smallness.”
“She thought that one might not make a dent in the Great Sadness, but one could help make another person whole.”
“A road trip frees the mind, revitalizes the spirit, and infuses the body with Dr Pepper and teriyaki jerky.”
“One of the things that happens to people as they get older, and especially to women on the other side of middle age, is that people forget to notice.”
“I’m not sure of anything,” she said. “Which is almost wonderful.”
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