Bette Lee Crosby > Quotes

“The worst handicap you can have is a lack of belief in yourself!

Lani Deauville”
― Bette Lee Crosby, Life in the Land of "Is"...the amazing story of Lani Deauville, the world's longest living quadriplegic

“sugar, if you ain't on speaking terms with The Lord, what right you got to ask Him to help you out?”
― Bette Lee Crosby

“She'd bottled herself up like a person already cremated.”
― Bette Lee Crosby, Spare Change

“Oh, there are many things I can’t do,” Ophelia replies. “But I try not to think of them. Such thoughts only weigh a person down.”
― Bette Lee Crosby, Memory House

“All those children I thought were just passing through have taken up residence in my heart. I can close my eyes and picture their faces, which is enough to make me feel warm all over.”
― Bette Lee Crosby, Cracks in the Sidewalk

“The Lord listens in all those places. They're just different slices of the same pie.”
― Bette Lee Crosby, Spare Change

“Falling out of love is a lot harder than falling in love. When you fall in love, everything is beautiful—flowers bloom, music plays, and every star in the sky is winking at you. But falling out of love is like finding yourself in a pitch-black tunnel. At first you think in time you’ll get through it, and then you realize how terribly long the tunnel is. I’m starting to see pinpricks of light ahead, so I might be coming to the end, but I’m not there yet.”
― Bette Lee Crosby, A Year of Extraordinary Moments

“No matter how old a person gets, they can still dream. They can still believe in miracles.”
― Bette Lee Crosby, Cracks in the Sidewalk

“Some people saw cooking as a chore, but not Lila. For her it was a way to express her love. It made her feel motherly and full of life.”
― Bette Lee Crosby, The Summer of New Beginnings

“Before you find the magic of life you have to open yourself up to the possibility of it being there.”
― Bette Lee Crosby, Memory House

“No matter how good or bad yesterday was, once it’s gone, it’s gone.”
― Bette Lee Crosby, Emily, Gone

“Do you think there's ever any joy for people who carve their happiness out of someone else's hurt?”
― Bette Lee Crosby, The Twelfth Child

“Nothing in this life is guaranteed. Nothing. The things you love are like the puffs of a dandelion weed; they grow wild and happen as they will.”
― Bette Lee Crosby, What the Heart Remembers

“As I grow ever closer to the end of my time, I look back at this life and tell you that the only thing I would wish to give up is the regret I've carried in my heart for all these years. At long last I have come to realize the things I once counted as regrets were indeed blessings that I was too blind to see.”
― Bette Lee Crosby, The Regrets of Cyrus Dodd

“It's funny how thinking of somebody other than yourself can help your heart to heal.”
― Bette Lee Crosby, Emily, Gone

“People, for instance,” she said. “You get a glimpse of them in one light and expect the whole to be like that one tiny little glimpse, but it seldom is.”
― Bette Lee Crosby, Baby Girl

“To give a lot when you have a lot is easy; but to give a lot when you have so little is indeed a gift of love.”
― Bette Lee Crosby, Blueberry Hill: a Sister's Story

“I remind myself that loving my sister means I have to step back and give her the dignity of independence.”
― Bette Lee Crosby, Blueberry Hill: a Sister's Story

“Being sick robs a person of their health and being poor robs them of life’s luxuries, but being pitied robs them of their will to live.”
― Bette Lee Crosby, Blueberry Hill: a Sister's Story

“I say “I’m fine,” because that’s what you do. When someone asks how you are, you say fine, regardless of whether it’s true.”
― Bette Lee Crosby, Blueberry Hill: a Sister's Story

“The sad thing is, regardless of what children do or say, they’re still your children, and you don’t stop loving them. Yes, there may be occasions when you scream and yell until you’re blue in the face, but even then, you don’t stop loving them.”
― Bette Lee Crosby, The Summer of New Beginnings

“We were just two people headed in the same direction, and walking together was better than walking alone. Love should be more than that.”
― Bette Lee Crosby, Memory House

“When the preacher says it’s for better or worse, you’re so blinded by the possibility of better you fail to see the reality of worse.”
― Bette Lee Crosby, Previously Loved Treasures

“She looked down at the boy and knew her ability to love was not dead. It simply needed a reason to live.”
― Bette Lee Crosby, Spare Change

“What the heart remembers isn’t always a true picture of what was,”
― Bette Lee Crosby, What the Heart Remembers

“Here's to the future, he said and lifted the glass to his mouth. There was a lump of regret stuck in his throat as he spoke the words, but he washed it down with the whiskey.”
― Bette Lee Crosby, The Regrets of Cyrus Dodd

“I simply don’t understand how the same parents can have two children who are so totally different. The girls were raised in the same household, and we didn’t make a bean of difference in how we treated them, but look at how it turned out.”
― Bette Lee Crosby, The Summer of New Beginnings

“He searched his mind for something more to say, something to take away her pain, but he could find nothing. There were no words to ease such a pain. He knew because the ache in his heart was as great as hers.”
― Bette Lee Crosby, The Regrets of Cyrus Dodd

“The stories she told were part truth and part lie, woven together so seamlessly there was no way of telling one from the other.”
― Bette Lee Crosby, Emily, Gone

“Once you’ve got another life that you’re responsible for, you don’t care about being right. You just care about making things right for your baby.”
― bette lee crosby