Beth Kephart famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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 not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of person.
-- Beth Kephart

#Hair #Breathing #Steps
In high school, my desire for friendship far outweighed my talent for it.
-- Beth Kephart

#School #High School #Desire
I believe friends enclose us, like a pair of parentheses. Each one knows us differently, each sustains us in a different way.
-- Beth Kephart

#Friends #Believe #Different
Throughout our lives friends enclose us like pairs of parentheses. They shift our boundaries; crater our terrain. They fume through the cracks of our tentative houses and parts of them always remain. Friendship asks the truth and wants the truth, hollows and fills, ages with us, and we through it. It cradles us like family. It is ecology and mystery and language - all three. Our grown-up friendships - especially the really meaningful ones- model for our children what we want them to have throughout their lives.
-- Beth Kephart

#Friendship #Meaningful #Children
Nature is not the number-one mystery, Iâ€™ve learned. Itâ€™s the heart that takes top honors.
-- Beth Kephart

#Heart #Numbers #Honor
Imagine music gushing down the hollow places in your bones, and making you liquid, and giving you speed. Imagine music turning your body into a song.
-- Beth Kephart

#Song #Giving #Body
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 earth.
-- Beth Kephart

#Mother #Beach #Heart
How do you know when an apology is trueâ€”when it means something, or can change something, or will last outside the moment?
-- Beth Kephart

#Mean #Apology #Lasts
Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.
-- Beth Kephart

#Falling In Love #Tree #Firsts
You know how a river goes on and on? That's my love for you.
-- Beth Kephart

#Rivers #My Love For You #Goes On
Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.
-- Beth Kephart

#Giving #Stories #Chance
Hereâ€™s another change Iâ€™ve noticed: The dark is more than the sun dropping off, more than the moon and the stars. Itâ€™s what you canâ€™t see that you hope you will see, what hasnâ€™t been that might be.
-- Beth Kephart

#Stars #Dark #Moon
We grow too old to lose old friends ...
-- Beth Kephart

#Old Friends #Grows

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