Bette Greene Quotes

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It was like that. Sometimes I'd go for a period—days or weeks—without feeling the full sweep of my loss, and then as unexpected as a thunderclap, the realization would rip the protective coating from my senses. Maybe that's the way it is with trick knees and aging griefs. Totally pain free one moment and absorbingly painful the next.

Bette Greene
What do you know about sooner or later? Is a moment only a moment when you're in pain?

Bette Greene
Why is it I'm always so quick to believe that people are thinking...believing the worst about me?

Bette Greene
And taking care of somebody else made me feel good. Like discovering you're more than you thought you were. More even than you hoped to be.

Bette Greene
A person's got to think, otherwise that person's no better than a trained seal balancing a ball on his nose. If only that seal could think, he'd know he was making a thousand children laugh.

Bette Greene
Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who loved you enough to give you his most valued possession.

Bette Greene
What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?

Bette Greene
And marking off time struck me as something like counting empty spaces—spaces you know can't ever be filled.

Bette Greene
Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.

Bette Greene
When people's emotions are involved they don't want to listen.

Bette Greene
I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.

Bette Greene