“Be patient and strong; someday this pain will be useful to you.” — Karen White Pain Copy Share Image
“The sun is a pretty stubborn guy, and he'll rise each day just to spite you.” — Karen White Light Copy Share Image
Sometimes I guess you need to lose everything before you realize what's really important. — Karen White Copy Share Image
“But maybe everybody was like that, all of us living the lives we had to while dreaming of the lives we wanted.” — Karen White Dream Copy Share Image
The highway of life was littered with the roadkill of those who didn't know when to change lanes. — Karen White After the rain Copy Share Image
“If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, I'd walk back up to Heaven and bring you home again.” — Karen White Copy Share Image
“life is a lot like the interstate, where every exit is an entrance someplace else.” — Karen White Copy Share Image
You have to get through the rain if you're ever going to see a rainbow. — Karen White After the rain Copy Share Image
Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi's incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive… — Karen White Copy Share Image
“My mom would say that crying for the moon is a lot like sitting in a rocking chair: It keeps you busy… — Karen White Copy Share Image
“I reached for Helen's hand, and felt her squeeze back, accepting that I would understand more than most the missing part of… — Karen White Human heart Copy Share Image
“When everything you're about to see is too much, look up and see that the sky is clear and know that everything… — Karen White Copy Share Image
“We all need something to soften the sharp edges. To give us balance. Otherwise, I think we'd find ourselves stumbling around in… — Karen White Karen-white Copy Share Image
Miles and years become suddenly invisible when you find yourself back where you started from, as if you've learned nothing and you… — Karen White Finding yourself Copy Share Image
There are no completely good or bad people. Everybody makes mistakes, or bad choices. It's how we live with them that make… — Karen White Bad choices Copy Share Image
“Some are called to be gardeners of souls, and she'd tended hers with the blind dedication that accepted the floods and famine… — Karen White Copy Share Image
Life isn't perfect. It's not supposed to be. We all make mistakes. You bash your head against the wall and you get… — Karen White Copy Share Image
“Because we've realized that if you wait until everything's perfect, until all your differences have been settled and all chance at happiness.… — Karen White Copy Share Image
A great man once wrote, "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows… — Karen White Absence Copy Share Image
“We all make choices, Miss Szarka. And if it doesn't work out the way we wanted it to, we can spend a… — Karen White Blaming others Copy Share Image
Strong winds buffet the sea oats and tall dune grasses, tossing sand and seabirds where it will, winding my sister's golden hair… — Karen White Bird Copy Share Image
“Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from… — Karen White Battle Copy Share Image
“It still amazed me sometimes when I caught sight of myself in a mirror. I would be startled to see the stranger… — Karen White Mirror Copy Share Image
“I stared back at him, trying to think of a way to explain how I'd eradicated the word "want" from my vocabulary… — Karen White Karen-white Copy Share Image
“I can not regret what I have learned. Regardless of what you decide and what becomes of us, it will not change… — Karen White Decision making Copy Share Image
“I noticed again the bruised oaks nearby, and their gallant attempts to flourish as if their scars didn't exist. "Why did some… — Karen White Karen-white Copy Share Image
“Jude says it's because that's the way I look at life_ it's so much more exciting when you don't know what's on… — Karen White Copy Share Image
“I looked around the garden, the sun feeling warm on my back. "So why are you here? I would think you'd want… — Karen White Human spirit Copy Share Image
“Do you know how diamonds are made?" She gazed steadily at him, the light turning her green eyes transparent. He didn't wait… — Karen White Diamond Copy Share Image
“Storms bring the detritus of other people's lives into our own, a reminder that we are not alone, and of how truly… — Karen White Karen-white Copy Share Image
“let the story go, and still clutched F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise in my arms as if to let it… — Karen White Copy Share Image
“it wasn't the mountain ahead that wears you out, but the grain of sand in your shoe” — Karen White Copy Share Image
I know what it is to hope and pray so hard that you're sure God will answer your prayer just so you'll… — Karen White Copy Share Image
