Yesterday's Tides
Roseanna M. White
Top 10 Best Quotes
“She was one small grain of sand squaring off against a hurricane. But each grain of sand played its part.”
“They’d become part of the earth. Part of the people. Part of the story they’d all tell. The yesterday whose tides would carve tomorrow.”
“That's the best way, I think, to handle what life throws at us. Grab hold of it. Make whatever we can with whatever pieces we have.”
“That's something every islander knows--there's always going to be another hurricane. Another storm. Everything buried will surface again, and everything you thought would last forever will come down eventually. But you rebuild. You dredge. You keep moving, keep adding new. That's how we go on living.”
“She'd do what she could to make life a little sweeter for the people around her. She'd live until she didn't anymore.”
“She couldn't change much about this life she'd been given, the yesterdays that dictated today and tomorrow. But she could do this. She could look at things in that way God had given her.”
“No more hidden pieces, buried in the sand. They need to be seen. How can we ever be understood, be truly loved, if we don't show all our most important pieces?”
“They would survive the devastation of this war, somehow. The scarred men, the abused women, the torn-apart land. They would all go on. All rebuild. All find new life. New life that might cover those scars but which couldn't obliterate them completely. She knew that too. They'd become part of the earth. Part of the people. Part of the story they'd all tell. The yesterday whose tides would carve tomorrow.”
“That meant there was hope. Hope that a mother's love would pull a son back to her. Hope that the world would learn from its mistakes and build friendships where enmity had reigned. There was hop that someday this stitched-together family they'd claimed for themselves would be whole.”
“Stories had painted the backdrop of her world as a child, more than she had ever known. Stories had brought to life all the people who mattered to her, Stories had been reality in her family.”
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