“No Matter how you try to cover up smoke, it must come out.” — Patti Callahan Henry Fire Copy Share Image
“We have to know the truth about the past to discover out future.” — Patti Callahan Henry Future Copy Share Image
“There are trials and mistakes and even wars along the path of marriage.” — Patti Callahan Henry Failure Copy Share Image
“The right thing at the wrong time is never the right thing.” — Patti Callahan Henry Right thing Copy Share Image
“We have to know the truth about our past to discover our future.” — Patti Callahan Henry Time Copy Share Image
“Maybe I'd ignored longing so many times through the years until eventually I'd just stopped feeling it.” — Patti Callahan Henry Longing Copy Share Image
The choices we make when we're broken are sometimes the most awful of all our choices. — Patti Callahan Henry Copy Share Image
“Over time, hidden truths morph in the dark soil of deceit into something much worse.” — Patti Callahan Henry Deceit Copy Share Image
“Let the story settle inside you. Let it move and twist around until you see what it has to say to you.” — Patti Callahan Henry Copy Share Image
“If you don’t know where you are going, you should know where you came from.” —GULLAH PROVERB” — Patti Callahan Henry Copy Share Image
“Grief wraps around people, takes them to a place they would not go otherwise.” — Patti Callahan Henry Death Copy Share Image
“This is now and forever - the moment everyone must have, the moment that encompasses all other moments; now and before, now… — Patti Callahan Henry Copy Share Image
“Edges of the ocean. The water is what ties us together, yes? You at one edge, me at the other, but the… — Patti Callahan Henry Copy Share Image
“I can’t go back to what we had in childhood. I can’t relive those times, retrace my tracks and undo what’s been… — Patti Callahan Henry Childhood Copy Share Image
“But all that planning and outlining can really get a man knotted up thinking things aren’t going his way. It might be… — Patti Callahan Henry Outlining Copy Share Image
“I know this about imagination: It needs a place to go. If I don't work at my cards and images and letterpress,… — Patti Callahan Henry Imagination Copy Share Image
“Riley’s smile saturated her entire face with beauty. This was the sister Maisy had left all those years ago. The sister with… — Patti Callahan Henry Beauty Copy Share Image
“You'll let him talk you out of your dreams. That's what love does sometimes- talks you out of your dreams." "Not me,"… — Patti Callahan Henry Dreams Copy Share Image
“I believe it's a miracle in life when you find people who care about and desire the same things you do, and… — Patti Callahan Henry Creativity Copy Share Image
“When you know you love someone, when you know it's finally the right time, you don't just wait around for the right… — Patti Callahan Henry Copy Share Image
“There were some things that needed to be said even if the person you were saying them to didn't understand; words that… — Patti Callahan Henry Language Copy Share Image
“daughter of the past who walked in all wide-eyed and exhaling like she’d finally found what she was looking for. It was… — Patti Callahan Henry Books Copy Share Image
“People say it all the time--'follow your heart.' What are we supposed to do--take our heart out and walk around behind it--follow… — Patti Callahan Henry Copy Share Image
“She allowed the sweet thrill of hearing Mack Logan’s voice, even in the background, run through her before she dismissed it as… — Patti Callahan Henry Adventure Copy Share Image
“You think it is so different because you live here in this time, in this place, because I'm from the far side… — Patti Callahan Henry Copy Share Image
“Riley sensed the shift before it actually happened: Mack turning his smile, his focus on Maisy. She felt the desperate desire to… — Patti Callahan Henry Copy Share Image
“The slow turning of his affection wasn’t completed that night, or the next morning, but the beginning of Mack and Maisy’s summer… — Patti Callahan Henry Love Copy Share Image
“Their words faded into the darkness as if they were spoken and unspoken at the same time; as if they were important… — Patti Callahan Henry Darkness Copy Share Image
“Stories are always braided together - one affecting the other.” — Patti Callahan Henry Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we tell our stories and sometimes our stories tell us.” — Patti Callahan Henry Life Copy Share Image
“...memory is a cloudy, disjointed thing - like disconnected dreams with images scattered and thrown to settle where they please.” — Patti Callahan Henry Dreams Copy Share Image
“I was never without a book, just in case there were empty moments to slip into a life that wasn't mine.” — Patti Callahan Henry Book Copy Share Image
“It is not about how it ends; it is about the journey. The full story. You have to know the full story… — Patti Callahan Henry Journey Copy Share Image
“This is the thing we must guard against: that others' expectations, especially our families', do not become our own.” — Patti Callahan Henry Expectations Copy Share Image