Hello. Here is a list of 20 quotes that I liked and saved while reading The Light Through the Leaves book by Glendy Vanderah. I hope you will like them too. By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.
The Light Through the Leaves Quotes
- The pain of existence was not something a person should have to feel. – Quote from The Light Through the Leaves book by Glendy Vanderah
- I’m begging you to be who you truly are with our children. If you can do that, I know they’ll grow into good men. – Quote from The Light Through the Leaves book by Glendy Vanderah
- I’ve seen how that goes, and so have you. All the fighting over the kids. The new partners of the divorced couple getting involved. The kids confused by their loyalties. Kids shouldn’t be consigned to Hell because their parents made mistakes. – Quote from The Light Through the Leaves book by Glendy Vanderah
- I left my baby in the woods. I know the regret of leaving a child behind very well. I feel the agony of it in every moment. – Quote from The Light Through the Leaves book by Glendy Vanderah
- People who love each other can stay together in other ways. In their hearts. – Quote from The Light Through the Leaves book by Glendy Vanderah
- Cold camping with a lover was the best. Snuggling under warm blankets while the snow fell outside. The soft walls and warm interior felt like a tiny world born of their two bodies. To make love in a tent in winter felt deliciously primal. – Quote from The Light Through the Leaves book by Glendy Vanderah
- Women got the short end of the evolutionary stick when it comes to body strength. In most cases, a man can physically dominate a woman. And the anatomy of human genitalia makes the disadvantage even worse. – Quote from The Light Through the Leaves book by Glendy Vanderah
- Agriculture turned us into prisoners. We never wanted to grow crops and live in houses. We were nomads for millions of years. – Quote from The Light Through the Leaves book by Glendy Vanderah
- Inside we’re still a nomadic species. All people feel it, but most of them don’t know what’s making them want something that’s always out of reach. They buy fancier cars and bigger houses, but it never makes them feel better. They just keep getting more depressed until they die. – Quote from The Light Through the Leaves book by Glendy Vanderah
- People change, Dani. I don’t intend this to be mean, but you don’t really know me now. And I don’t know you. I’ve been married, a mother of three, and divorced all while you’ve been in grad school. – Quote from The Light Through the Leaves book by Glendy Vanderah
- Kids in high school thought a lot about sex. And talked a lot about it. And smirked and joked about it. And speculated about who was doing it with whom. – Quote from The Light Through the Leaves book by Glendy Vanderah
- You are my treasure. I will watch over you in this life and also in the next. – Quote from The Light Through the Leaves book by Glendy Vanderah
- You will have my spirit with you always, dear one. You need only look at the beauty of the earth, and I’ll be there. – Quote from The Light Through the Leaves book by Glendy Vanderah
- Mama was right about the creature joy of sex. It was like lapping icy water straight from a Montana mountain stream when she was thirsty. It was a kind of satiation in the most beautiful of ways. – Quote from The Light Through the Leaves book by Glendy Vanderah
- Hatred was an addictive emotion, and it thrived best with frequent injections that kept the high going. – Quote from The Light Through the Leaves book by Glendy Vanderah
- To my baby sister, who’s once again tossed us into a stormy sea. May we find our way back to shore. – Quote from The Light Through the Leaves book by Glendy Vanderah
- You’re my brother, and you’re my friend. You can be as contrarian and mean to me as you want, but I’m still going to care. – Quote from The Light Through the Leaves book by Glendy Vanderah
- Love couldn’t be removed like a thorn from a thumb. – Quote from The Light Through the Leaves book by Glendy Vanderah
- This grass is making food for itself from sunlight. And that food feeds many creatures. I believe photosynthesis is a kind of miracle. – Quote from The Light Through the Leaves book by Glendy Vanderah
- It always did what it wanted. Fate didn’t give a damn how good a person was, or how innocent a baby, before it swept them away. – Quote from The Light Through the Leaves book by Glendy Vanderah