Mary Ellen Taylor > Quotes

“Logic and emotion rarely speak the same language.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“But bad habits aren’t so easily banished. They bide their time and wait for frustration, doubt, and then temptation to do their bidding.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Winter Cottage

“Scars are where we are most durable.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Words We Whisper

“Anyone who leaves home always carries a piece of it with them.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Brighter the Light

“There are no secrets that time doesn’t ultimately reveal,”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“But that’s what grief did. It was patient, always lurking in the shadows, ready to spoil a happy moment, sour a day, or prompt unexpected tears.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, When the Rain Ends

“became very aware that death was a problem that nothing could repair. No one could do anything to roll back time.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, When the Rain Ends

“white porcelain claw-foot tub with crystal hot and cold water knobs.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Winter Cottage

“A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“Promises are like butterflies. Beautiful. Colorful. Easily crushed and broken.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Spring House

“Do not squander time. It is the stuff life is made of. —Benjamin Franklin”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, When the Rain Ends

“Grief makes us do stupid, hurtful things, Lucy. A wounded soul can be a very selfish one.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Spring House

“Loving Beth felt like a damned addiction. I couldn’t take care of her the way she wanted, but I couldn’t let go.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Winter Cottage

“Sometimes there’s no choosing between right and wrong. Sometimes you have to pick the best of the worst solutions and hope for the best. Miss Olivia did that, and she’s the reason we’re all standing here today.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“Ruth handed her a slice of bacon, as if that would fix everything, which it nearly did, judging by the look on her face.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Brighter the Light

“We wore black to symbolize the sadness of the life lost and the color to recognize the gifts that the departed had brought to us all.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Union Street Bakery

“Something in Sadie snapped. All God’s good reason took one look at her and then took off running, leaving her alone with the devil sitting on her shoulder.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“even a broken clock is right twice a day.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“Stop borrowing trouble, Reggie. I don’t know about you, but I’ve got plenty of troubles on my plate, and I’m not adding any more.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, When the Rain Ends

“I’m reasonable to a fault. It makes me boring.” “It makes you strong. It makes you the person no one has to worry about because they know you’ll be fine.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Words We Whisper

“There was a special kind of relationship between a lady’s maid and her mistress. Certainly there was a line”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Winter Cottage

“Clear, precise, it was a kind of old-world penmanship that had lost favor with the modern world.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“Never stop moving because it was always trailing close behind. Stop and think too long, and it would eat you right up. So, each day I kept moving until I was exhausted.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Promise of Tomorrow

“They are two of the greatest motivators of all time.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Spring House

“That was what age did for the lucky. As life stripped away youth and vitality, it also softened some of the regrets and perhaps exchanged a few devils for angels.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“She always felt calmer behind the lens, knowing it created a barrier between her and the world. When people looked at the camera lens, they became self-aware and ceased to notice her.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, Honeysuckle Season

“A woman is never so late that she can’t spruce up her appearance.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Promise of Tomorrow

“Then he’d stopped resenting the future and started searching for moments of joy in the present.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, When the Rain Ends

“Live your life. Don’t let the past or the future ruin right now.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Brighter the Light

“Life should have halted, but the world spun as it always did and in time would grind the pain to dust.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor