But I think sometimes a person has to be forced underwater to see if they're going to drown or swim. — Karen White Copy Share Image
“...hearing again the words from the Gullah woman, All shut-eye ain't sleep; all good-bye ain't gone.” — Karen White Wisdom quotes Copy Share Image
“That no matter how good or bad things were, they were never permanent.” — Karen White Copy Share Image
“There was so much we didn't know, so much we would never know. The secrets of the dead are always kept.” — Karen White Secrets Copy Share Image
“I was starting to realize how much the presence of a child could make adults act more like adults.” — Karen White Adults Copy Share Image
Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing. — Karen White Adversity Copy Share Image
“That there are no troubles in life that can't be sorted through or solved by spending time in the garden” — Karen White Garden 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“Maybe with Sara's accident he had finally begun to see that life continued after a fall and that the hands that reached… — Karen White Karen-white Copy Share Image
Sometimes we make decisions because it seems to be the only path visible at the moment. It's only later that we see… — Karen White Copy Share Image
“The feelings I had for my sister were jumbled together, like the monkeys in a barrel game we'd had as children. All… — Karen White Children 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
“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
“Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim…Be patient and strong; someday this pain will be useful to you.” — Karen White Inspirational Copy Share Image
“All shut-eye ain't sleep; all good-bye ain't gone." The Time Between” — Karen White Time Copy Share Image
“...feelings of hurt and betrayal and utter loss poured through me like batter hitting a hot skillet.” — Karen White Betrayal Copy Share Image
The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at… — Karen White Copy Share Image
A secret society exists, and is living among all of us. They are neither people nor animals, but something in-between. — Karen White Animal Copy Share Image
They say that not matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood. — Karen White Brotherhood Copy Share Image
“Surrounding yourself with a lot of desert is a bit like sitting in quicksand: Sooner or later the water will find you… — Karen White Desert Copy Share Image
“Love is all about sacrifices—big and small ones. It’s only when you know how much you could give up for somebody that… — Karen White Love Copy Share Image
“Things do not always work out as we have planned, do they? Sometimes the hardest thing is not to just survive the… — Karen White Grief Copy Share Image
“I think that her life was about finding the extraordinary in every day. It was how she could sit in her garden… — Karen White Beauty Copy Share Image
“I wish I could change things for you, make it so this all doesn't have to hurt so much. But that's the… — Karen White Copy Share Image
“Madame LaFleur would say that you're more of a classical ballet dancer instead of a jazz dancer. But sometimes all you have… — Karen White Ballet dance Copy Share Image
“The golden moments īn the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; The angels come to visit… — Karen White Angel Copy Share Image
“I've found that you can't measure happiness the way you measure yards in a race. You just learn to recognize it when… — Karen White Enjoy it while it lasts Copy Share Image
“But Willa Faye and me, not a war about it between us. It bonded us. Branded us as best friends. Because I… — Karen White Best friend Copy Share Image
“Well, you get out of bed, you eat your grits, say hey to your neighbor, you give extra love to her children,… — Karen White Children Copy Share Image
We live, we love. These are the choices we are given, to open doors or to close them. It is all we… — Karen White Choice Copy Share Image
“She thought of the horse with his scars and wondered if having them so visible wasn't preferable to the hidden kind where… — Karen White Copy Share Image
There is how we were before, and how we are now, and the time between is spent choosing which doors to open,… — Karen White Copy Share Image
