8 Quotes & Sayings By Vaddey Ratner

Vaddey Ratner is a bestselling author of both fiction and nonfiction. Her work has been described as "emotionally moving, compelling, and powerful." Vaddey's books have been published in 36 countries and have been made into films, as well as taught in schools across the world. Her first novel, Mother of Pearl, was selected as the Book of the Month by the Los Angeles Times and was also named one of Oprah Magazine's top five books of 2006. Vaddey's second novel, The Women's Circle, was selected as Book of the Month by Publishers Weekly and featured on Oprah and Fox News Read more

Her first memoir, Unfinished: My Story of Love and Loss, chronicled her experience following her mother's death from breast cancer. Her second book, Love, Loss & What I Wore: A Memoir of Fashion and Family , is a collection of stories about love and loss that span four decades.

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Love hides in all sorts of places, in the most sorrowful corner of your heart, in the darkest and most hopeless situation Vaddey Ratner
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Words, you see, " he said, looking at me again, "allow us to make permanent what is essentially transient. Turn a world filled with injustice and hurt into a place that is beautiful and lyrical. Vaddey Ratner
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He supposes in this way he's learned to pray not as one might to the gods but as one does by simply pausing every now and then to think of others. Vaddey Ratner
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Knowing comes from learning, finding from seeking. Vaddey Ratner
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I thought maybe we mourned not only for the dead but also for the living. We felt their absence before we knew for sure they were gone. Vaddey Ratner
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I said nothing. Deep inside of me, my voice screamed from a hole where I had buried it Vaddey Ratner
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A story, I had learned, through my own constant knitting and reknitting of remembered words, can lead us back to ourselves, to our lost innocence, and in the shadow it casts over our present world, we begin to understand what we only intuited in our naivete-that while all else may vanish, love is our one eternity. Vaddey Ratner