Poetry Quote by Anne D. LeClaire

“Silence, along with the attention it fosters, is our anchor to the present, to the here and now.”

— Anne D. LeClaire

“That was the cruelty of memory. The way it could ambush you.”

— Anne D. LeClaire

“Every day is ordinary. Until it isn’t. On this early-October morning, the townspeople in Port Fortune wake before dawn to an ordinary day with…

— Anne D. LeClaire

“How would the world change, Father Gervase wondered, if one could look for and see goodness, whatever human guise it was cloaked in, if…

— Anne D. LeClaire

“How often do we offer advice when what is really required is a compassionate ear?”

— Anne D. LeClaire

“The cure for everything is salt water—sweat, tears, or the sea.”

— Anne D. LeClaire

“Like too many of us, I mistook a busy life for a rich one.”

— Anne D. LeClaire

“Our spiritual journey is—or ought to be—a deepening realization of the possibility of sainthood in all of us.”

— Anne D. LeClaire

“I wondered if in even the strongest of marriages there always existed a fault line and it just took one major, earth-shattering disaster to…

— Anne D. LeClaire

“It is not the burdens and resentments we pick up that keep us derailed, but our continuing to tote them.”

— Anne D. LeClaire

“In the field of memory, land mines were buried everywhere, easily tripped.”

— Anne D. LeClaire

“Silence is not an absence but a presence. Not an emptiness but repletion. A filling up.”

— Anne D. LeClaire