Beth Kephart Quotes

We grow too old to lose old friends ...

How do you know when an apology is true - when it means something, or can change something, or will last outside the moment?

Maybe all that matters is that they love each other, still, the way people who have known each other will always love each other.

Beauty is the worst kind of lie.

Were there language, I'd be my own lone letter.

His client needs him, he says. Needs him? But isn't he needed at home?

You know how a river goes on and on? That's my love for you.

Nature is not the number-one mystery, I've learned. It's the heart that takes top honors.

I believe friends enclose us, like a pair of parentheses. Each one knows us differently, each sustains us in a different way.

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.

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.

I'd thought he was stars and then I'd thought he was a fox. I had thought I'd been alone, but I hadn't.

In high school, my desire for friendship far outweighed my talent for it.

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.

Words are the weights which hold our history in place.

Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.