Beth Kephart Quotes

• 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

  Breathing, Hair, Steps

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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

  Beth Kephart

  Rivers, My Love For You, Goes On

  Beth Kephart (2007). “Undercover”, HarperTeen

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• Words are the weights which hold our history in place.

  Beth Kephart

  Weight

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• 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

  I Love You, Falling In Love, Tree

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• Here’s another change I’ve noticed: The dark is more than the sun dropping off, more than the moon and the stars. It’s what you can’t see that you hope you will see, what hasn’t been that might be.

  Beth Kephart

  Stars, Dark, Moon

  Beth Kephart (2007). “Undercover”, HarperTeen

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

  Beth Kephart

  School, High School, Desire

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• We grow too old to lose old friends.

  Beth Kephart

  Old Friends, Grows, Loses

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

  Beth Kephart

  Mean, Apology, Lasts

  Beth Kephart (2007). “Undercover”, HarperTeen

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

  Beth Kephart

  Heart, Numbers, Honor

  Beth Kephart (2007). “Undercover”, HarperTeen

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

  Beth Kephart

  Giving, Stories, Chance

  Beth Kephart (2007). “Undercover”, HarperTeen

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• 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

  Beth Kephart (2007). “Undercover”, HarperTeen

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