Goes on Quotes by Beth Kephart

Words are the weights which hold our history in place.

— Beth Kephart

Nature is not the number-one mystery, I’ve learned. It’s the heart that takes top honors.

— Beth Kephart

“Love is what you give and love is what you want and love is how you wait, but it doesn't save you”

— Beth Kephart

“Were there language, I'd be my own lone letter.”

— Beth Kephart

Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're…

— Beth Kephart

“Beauty is the worst kind of lie.”

— Beth Kephart

Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.

— Beth Kephart

“Fox-Trot By the stream the fox and she-fox stood Nose to nose beneath the stars Dancing the music of the woods. The deer rapped…

— Beth Kephart

“His client needs him, he says. Needs him? But isn’t he needed at home?”

— Beth Kephart

Here’s another change I’ve noticed: The dark is more than the sun dropping off, more than the moon and the stars. It’s what you…

— Beth Kephart

Nothing erodes [a mother's love]. It is not sand on a beach. It is the nuclear heart of things-hard as the rock of this…

— Beth Kephart

I believe friends enclose us, like a pair of parentheses. Each one knows us differently, each sustains us in a different way.

— Beth Kephart