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"The Optimist's Daughter" Quotes
After her father's death, Laurel McKelva Hand returns to her Mississippi hometown and confronts grief, memory, and her complex relationship with her stepmother.
Quotes
Hope is the thing with feathers.
We learn to live without them, but never to forget.
The real difficulty, the central mystery of things, was something apart from her, it was in the world itself.
It is hard to believe how lovely the world can be. The gift is here and now.
It is enough that I am surrounded by such people, that I walk and breathe and live among them, and I am grateful.
She was quite indifferent to what her eyelashes might be doing, now that they had ceased to amuse anyone.
Loss is forever and love is forever, and all we can do is lean on each other and remember them.
Love is easier to remember than to find.
She was twenty-two, as young as ever I was, and just beginning to see how vast and unpredictable life and the wretched world were.
We are always more aware of what we think we don’t have than what we do.
