“The thing about grace is that you don’t deserve it. You can’t earn it. You can only accept it. Or not.”
―
Kimi Cunningham Grant,
These Silent Woods
“Because if your own child, the person for whom you’ve sacrificed everything, for whom you’ve broken laws as well as your own personal sense of boundaries, has lost confidence in you, and in turn, in themselves and the world at large, then what’s the point of any of it?” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods
“It had been there, hadn't it? Something blooming between the two of us. A closeness. A possibility. And what had I done? Pulled away.” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods
“Spin into regretting and wishing and remembering, and it's a vortex, that type of thinking. It'll suck you right down and you have to kick and claw your way back. Better to stay in the present.” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods
“Here we go again: People spilling their secrets to me. My confessional curse.” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods
“The past was never dead; it was never past. But it didn’t have to own you, either. It didn’t have to be all you were.” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant, Fallen Mountains
“The thing about grace is that you don't deserve it. You can't earn it. You can only accept it. Or not.” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods
“There are things that cannot be changed, and you don’t try to change them.” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant, Silver Like Dust: One Family's Story of America's Japanese Internment
“Sometimes on the front porch, sometimes at the river, sometimes up by the pond. Didn’t matter where: that was our thing, talking in the evenings. What we’d done at work, who we’d seen. That was all good and well, but there was more. We’d talk about what we wanted out of life. We’d talk about the future. Updates we might make to the farm. Places we wanted to take our children. How we wanted to be.” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods
“Maybe in the end, not letting yourself forgive someone — you were the one who paid the price for that, nobody else.” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant, Fallen Mountains
“The thing is, me and Judge had never gotten along, and here's why. He always saw things in black-and-white, which is maybe what judges are supposed to do. Me, I saw things how they really are: not black-and-white but a hundred shades inbetween.” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods
“I’ve always believed that if something was meant to happen, you’d have a second chance at it. But never have I been so bold as to believe in a third or even a fourth chance. Almost like the world was trying to hand you something good after all it had dealt you your whole life was heartache, like it had changed its position on who you were and what you could have. Call it what you will: karma or good luck or maybe something more. Grace.” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods
“that was my thing, cooking, something I brought to the table that she couldn’t, and she loved it about me, and I loved that she loved it.” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods
“I want this. I do. I just can't rush into something again. I'm grieving and lonely and heartbroken right now and this would make things better temporarily, but in the end I would regret it. I would wonder whether it was real.” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant
“Living alone in a foreign country without parents, siblings, or friends, trying to keep pace with society here, was painful and sad.” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant, Silver Like Dust: One Family's Story of America's Japanese Internment
“The first few times, my instinct was to panic. I would think about what if the parachute didn't open, what if I got tangled up, couldn't open my arms and legs wide, what if I died. But after a while, I learned to like it. The feeling of letting go. Surrendering.” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods
“The words just wouldn’t come out.” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant, Fallen Mountains
“[Faulkner]"The past is never dead. It isn't even past." In an attempt to remind his sons that every action had a consequence...and that terrible truth had plagued Red and his brother all through adolescence. Very street race through McKee's Rocks, every skipped class, every rock thrown into the glass of old factory buildings, every girl he ever touched--Red thought of Faulkner.” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant, Fallen Mountains
“Well. Bad things happen to people during war, even good people, as it didwith Jake. It is no respecter of persons, war. Even if it doesn’t damage yourbody, it damages your soul” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant
“Because if your own child, the person for whom you’ve sacrificed everything, for whom you’ve broken laws as well as your own personal sense of boundaries, has lost confidence in you, and in turn, in themselves and the world at large, then what’s the point of any of it?” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods
“It had been there, hadn't it? Something blooming between the two of us. A closeness. A possibility. And what had I done? Pulled away.” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods
“Spin into regretting and wishing and remembering, and it's a vortex, that type of thinking. It'll suck you right down and you have to kick and claw your way back. Better to stay in the present.” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods
“Here we go again: People spilling their secrets to me. My confessional curse.” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods
“The past was never dead; it was never past. But it didn’t have to own you, either. It didn’t have to be all you were.” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant, Fallen Mountains
“The thing about grace is that you don't deserve it. You can't earn it. You can only accept it. Or not.” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods
“There are things that cannot be changed, and you don’t try to change them.” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant, Silver Like Dust: One Family's Story of America's Japanese Internment
“Sometimes on the front porch, sometimes at the river, sometimes up by the pond. Didn’t matter where: that was our thing, talking in the evenings. What we’d done at work, who we’d seen. That was all good and well, but there was more. We’d talk about what we wanted out of life. We’d talk about the future. Updates we might make to the farm. Places we wanted to take our children. How we wanted to be.” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods
“Maybe in the end, not letting yourself forgive someone — you were the one who paid the price for that, nobody else.” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant, Fallen Mountains
“The thing is, me and Judge had never gotten along, and here's why. He always saw things in black-and-white, which is maybe what judges are supposed to do. Me, I saw things how they really are: not black-and-white but a hundred shades inbetween.” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods
“I’ve always believed that if something was meant to happen, you’d have a second chance at it. But never have I been so bold as to believe in a third or even a fourth chance. Almost like the world was trying to hand you something good after all it had dealt you your whole life was heartache, like it had changed its position on who you were and what you could have. Call it what you will: karma or good luck or maybe something more. Grace.” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods
“that was my thing, cooking, something I brought to the table that she couldn’t, and she loved it about me, and I loved that she loved it.” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods
“I want this. I do. I just can't rush into something again. I'm grieving and lonely and heartbroken right now and this would make things better temporarily, but in the end I would regret it. I would wonder whether it was real.” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant
“Living alone in a foreign country without parents, siblings, or friends, trying to keep pace with society here, was painful and sad.” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant, Silver Like Dust: One Family's Story of America's Japanese Internment
“The first few times, my instinct was to panic. I would think about what if the parachute didn't open, what if I got tangled up, couldn't open my arms and legs wide, what if I died. But after a while, I learned to like it. The feeling of letting go. Surrendering.” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods
“The words just wouldn’t come out.” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant, Fallen Mountains
“[Faulkner]"The past is never dead. It isn't even past." In an attempt to remind his sons that every action had a consequence...and that terrible truth had plagued Red and his brother all through adolescence. Very street race through McKee's Rocks, every skipped class, every rock thrown into the glass of old factory buildings, every girl he ever touched--Red thought of Faulkner.” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant, Fallen Mountains
“Well. Bad things happen to people during war, even good people, as it didwith Jake. It is no respecter of persons, war. Even if it doesn’t damage yourbody, it damages your soul” ― Kimi Cunningham Grant
