Quotes from Lisa Wingate

best to be who you is. What you is deep down inside. Ain't no other good way of livin'.

No matter how much we may love the melody of a bygone day or imagine the song of a future one, we must dance within the music of today, or we will always be out of step,

Grief and a change of location can often be more than the mind and body can handle.

much we may love the melody of a bygone day or imagine the song of a future one, we must dance within the music of today, or we will always be out of step, stumbling around in something that doesn't suit the moment. I let go of the river's song and found the music of that big house. I found room for a new life, a new mother who cared for me, and a new father who patiently taught me not only how to play music, but how to trust. He was as good a man as ever I've known.

Even when we are lost, God has not lost us.

woman's past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses. Her own music. To hear the tune, she must only stop talking. To herself, I mean. We're always trying to persuade ourselves of things.

Parenthood is the only career in which the better you do your job, the sooner you're fired.

they've all come to the same end. They are dust beneath the soil. All that is left behind lies in the people who remain. And the stories.

Real love isn't a payment. It isn't a response to your accomplishments or anything else. It's a gift without strings.

Through one lighthouse, you guide many ships. Iola's words whispered in my mind. Was she thinking of the

In those moments, I'd known that something new was being formed in me, too, created so gently that I hadn't even realized it until that evening by the shore.

Just because we're not always happy with what's true doesn't mean we shouldn't know it. It's how we learn. It's how we do better in the future. Hopefully, anyway.