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Family Tree (Switchback, Vermont, #1) QUOTES

Family Tree (Switchback, Vermont, #1) QUOTES

1 " Don't let the things you have to do take over the things you love to do. "

― Susan Wiggs , Family Tree (Switchback, Vermont, #1)

2 " Aw, Gran.” Annie had been fighting tears from the moment she’d boarded the train from New York. “Please don’t leave me.” “I won’t,” she said with a gentle smile. “Keep me in your heart, and you’ll always know where to find me. "

― Susan Wiggs , Family Tree (Switchback, Vermont, #1)

3 " her questions shooting at him like a barrage of machine-gun fire. He thought he did okay, because he was prepared. He had spent weeks reading and researching and studying, all the while waiting for the next round of bad news about his father. "

― Susan Wiggs , Family Tree (Switchback, Vermont, #1)

4 " quit arguing,” he said. “It’s a done deal.” He sat down and shoved first one foot, then the other, into his cowboy boots—the ridiculously expensive ones she had given him last Christmas. She’d never regretted the purchase, though, because they looked so good on him. “It’s not a done deal. We can still cancel. The budget for the show is already stretched to the limit. And a water buffalo? It’s going to be fifteen hundred pounds of stubborn.” “C’mon, babe.” Martin stood, his blue eyes twinkling like the sun on a swimming pool. “Working "

― Susan Wiggs , Family Tree (Switchback, Vermont, #1)

5 " She could scarcely move at all. Her muscles felt impossibly weak. Her limbs were gummy worms. She looked at her hands. Looked at her mother. “Is that what happened to my manicure? It’s gone because I’ve been asleep for a year? A whole freaking year? That’s impossible.” It was the kind of thing people passed around on the Internet—Woman Sleeps for a Year, Wakes Up Angry About Manicure. "

― Susan Wiggs , Family Tree (Switchback, Vermont, #1)

6 " Another thing Gran would say was imprinted on Annie’s heart—remember the love. When times get hard and you start wondering why you got married in the first place, remember the love. "

― Susan Wiggs , Family Tree (Switchback, Vermont, #1)

7 " One afternoon, she went to Washington Square "

― Susan Wiggs , Family Tree (Switchback, Vermont, #1)

8 " life had grace notes. These were moments so sweet that they could be tucked like the smallest of keepsakes, never to be forgotten. She "

― Susan Wiggs , Family Tree (Switchback, Vermont, #1)

9 " heart—life had grace notes. These were moments so sweet that they could be tucked like the smallest of keepsakes, never to be forgotten. She "

― Susan Wiggs , Family Tree (Switchback, Vermont, #1)

10 " Okay, did you know there’s a basketball court on the top floor of the Supreme Court building?” “Nobody knows that,” said Fletcher. “I do. Highest court in the land. "

― Susan Wiggs , Family Tree (Switchback, Vermont, #1)

11 " Gran was gone. She had passed quietly one night in springtime, and Annie’s world shifted on its axis. The pain of this grief was like nothing she had ever felt before. "

― Susan Wiggs , Family Tree (Switchback, Vermont, #1)

12 " Although it seemed impossible to find joy in the depths of her grief, Annie sensed that this was what Gran had been trying to tell her all along. She finally understood. This hurt she felt was the price of loving with her whole heart. But having Gran in her life had been worth every moment of pain. "

― Susan Wiggs , Family Tree (Switchback, Vermont, #1)

13 " In time, the grief turned into a dull ache with occasional flares of agony. It was like a fading bruise Annie forgot about until she bumped into a memory. Gran. It was the little moments that pierced most sharply, the remembrance of a smile, a gesture, a soft-voiced phrase. "

― Susan Wiggs , Family Tree (Switchback, Vermont, #1)

14 " DEDICATION In memory of my dad, Nick Klist —with deepest gratitude for all the love, the courage, the laughter, and the wisdom of a lifetime. He lives in the hearts of those who loved him. "

― Susan Wiggs , Family Tree (Switchback, Vermont, #1)

15 " a fight was never about the thing being fought over. "

― Susan Wiggs , Family Tree (Switchback, Vermont, #1)

16 " All arguments, at their core, were about power. Who had it. Who wanted it. Who would surrender. Who would prevail. "

― Susan Wiggs , Family Tree (Switchback, Vermont, #1)

17 " remember the love. "

― Susan Wiggs , Family Tree (Switchback, Vermont, #1)

18 " My grandmother used to always say, if you can’t be on time, be early. "

― Susan Wiggs , Family Tree (Switchback, Vermont, #1)

19 " Annie’s other prized book lay nearby—a copy of Lord of the Flies, a vintage clothbound volume in a sturdy slipcase, one of three copies she possessed. She hoped the reporter wouldn’t ask about that. "

― Susan Wiggs , Family Tree (Switchback, Vermont, #1)

20 " The chilly blue of loneliness was a shadow on snow. The "

― Susan Wiggs , Family Tree (Switchback, Vermont, #1)