It's easy to feel equal to wanting. It's rare to feel equal to having. — Helen Humphreys Easy Copy Share Image
“I am a writer. The proof of how I am feeling is always in my pen.” — Helen Humphreys Feeling Copy Share Image
“She believes in the words of her fortune teller, but really, anyone could have told her that if you have to stop… — Helen Humphreys Fortune teller Copy Share Image
“She doesn’t want to think of that woman, not now. She’s just one more person who hasn’t kept her promise; just one… — Helen Humphreys Doesn Want Copy Share Image
“The thing about longing is this: It is easy to feel equal to wanting. It is rare to feel equal to having.” — Helen Humphreys Inspirational Copy Share Image
Love is not a good thing, I've decided. It just makes you afraid you'll lose what you love, and then, because your… — Helen Humphreys Doe Copy Share Image
“It's funny to think that Anson and I were here, in this same place, together all that time ago, and now here… — Helen Humphreys Feel Copy Share Image
This is what I know about love, That it is tested every day, and what is not renewed is lost. One chooses… — Helen Humphreys Care Copy Share Image
“The point, dear Davis, is that sometimes what you want is nothing more than to put your name beside someone else's, someone… — Helen Humphreys Davis Copy Share Image
“Your leaving will not be solved by your coming back. But one does not preclude the other. And maybe that is always… — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
“I don't think anymore that my life is about what has happened to me. It's about what I choose to believe. It's… — Helen Humphreys Life Copy Share Image
“... the poetic moment is a static one. It's watching through a window while the action happens elsewhere. And then the poet… — Helen Humphreys Death Copy Share Image
“This is what I know about love. That it is tested every day, and what is not renewed is lost. One chooses… — Helen Humphreys Caring Copy Share Image
In some ways I spend longer at non-fiction because there are a lot of different threads to bring together. But non-fiction is… — Helen Humphreys Attention Copy Share Image
“There are words in my life that I wish I'd never said. I wish I'd never told my wife that I loved… — Helen Humphreys Life Copy Share Image
“I'm beginning to feel as though everything has happened before, that our story has already been told. Just as we were powerless… — Helen Humphreys Inevitability Copy Share Image
The novels are always morphing into something else now, some kind of hybrid, more of a ground that isn't so easily specified.… — Helen Humphreys Book Copy Share Image
“I suppose,” says Jeremy, “what I don’t like is that the moment you fix something, it starts to break down again, that… — Helen Humphreys Engine Copy Share Image
Every story is a story about death. But perhaps, if we are lucky, our story about death is also a story about… — Helen Humphreys Death Copy Share Image
Grief moves us like love. Grief is love, I suppose. Love as a backwards glance. — Helen Humphreys Backwards Copy Share Image
“It is light that dismantles each moment, I had thought then. Light proves it one thing or another. Darkness does not judge.” — Helen Humphreys Darkness Copy Share Image
“She hasn't had a book to read lately and that feeling of story rushes through her like a swoon.” — Helen Humphreys Book Copy Share Image
“The author is at one end of the experience of writing and the reader is at the other, and the book is… — Helen Humphreys Book Copy Share Image
There are many different stories to tell. It's never the same. Every day weather blows in and out, alters the surface. Sometimes… — Helen Humphreys Always believe Copy Share Image
“I have seen animals shot, and I have seen people who have been blindsided by greief. We always know what has hit… — Helen Humphreys Animals Copy Share Image
What I've always found interesting in gardens is looking at what people choose to plant there. What they put in. What they… — Helen Humphreys Atmosphere Copy Share Image
The heart is a river. The act of writing is the moving water that holds the banks apart, keeps the muscle of… — Helen Humphreys Chance Copy Share Image
“When a writer writes, it's as if she holds the sides of her chest apart, exposes her beating heart. And even though… — Helen Humphreys Writing Copy Share Image
Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are… — Helen Humphreys Business Copy Share Image
Memory is a barricade against forgetting; light is a bulwark against darkness; life is a flex against the stillness of the grave.… — Helen Humphreys Anxiety Copy Share Image
What I like about mixing fiction and non-fiction is being able to fully explore an idea without being bound by genre. If… — Helen Humphreys Complexity Copy Share Image
“The good thing about books is that they remain themselves. What happens in their pages stays there. Harriet does not like the… — Helen Humphreys Book Copy Share Image
“It's as if I've never seen Jane before, never known her. With just an undervest on, she looks unbelievably thin. Arms no… — Helen Humphreys Jane Known Copy Share Image
