Top 40 Barbara Claypole White Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “No one is responsible for your happiness but you.”

— Barbara Claypole White

2. “How do you feel about U2? There’s a song called ‘Sometimes You Can’t Make It on Your Own.”

— Barbara Claypole White

3. “Parenthood started with such optimism: your child would achieve his baby milestones, collect gold stars, maintain a good grade point average, hang out with the crowd that didn’t drink and drive. And then, when you weren’t paying attention, it all stripped down to one horrifying truth: you just wanted your son to find the will to live. Behind.”

— Barbara Claypole White

4. “If you’re too busy worrying about what might be, you forget to enjoy what you have.”

— Barbara Claypole White

5. “In seven days, someone had moved the goalposts of his life;.”

— Barbara Claypole White

6. “Life isn’t perfect, and people sure as heck aren’t. We’re broken and messy and a hornet’s nest of contradictions.”

— Barbara Claypole White

7. “Honey, I think we both need that bourbon.” EIGHTEEN.”

— Barbara Claypole White

8. “Failure was always an option, because the knowledge that you couldn’t win every time gave you the courage to try.”

— Barbara Claypole White

9. “The old man was an underachiever by choice, devoting himself to the only thing that mattered: loving his Angeline.”

— Barbara Claypole White

10. “Amazing how people saw what they wanted to see without taking the time to look.”

— Barbara Claypole White

11. “Joy Division, ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart,’ some old New Order, ‘Waterfront.’ That Coheed and Cambria song you’re always playing.” “‘The Afterman’?”

— Barbara Claypole White

12. “When Harry was awake, the house was littered with the perennially half-finished: a glass of orange juice left on the island for two hours; soda cans moved to the sink but not rinsed out and dumped in the recycling; dirty crockery left on the counter and not scraped, rinsed, washed, and slotted in the dish rack to dry.”

— Barbara Claypole White

13. “You’re never truly lost if someone cares enough to come find you. Lost is waiting to be found.”

— Barbara Claypole White

14. “The school parking lot was a quagmire of potential disaster: student drivers backing out too quickly, little kids running to cars without paying attention, mothers tearing in late. The stuff of nightmares. “How.”

— Barbara Claypole White

15. “Rightly or wrongly, she believed her life was in danger. Which left Felix facing the real ghoul under the bed – his true self.”

— Barbara Claypole White

16. “You needed jolts of fear, little hits of adrenaline, to appreciate the buzz of life.”

— Barbara Claypole White

17. “His heart, well, it’s big enough to feed the world, the way I see it.” “My.”

— Barbara Claypole White

18. “And this – what we have here, right now – this is good.” “You’ve discovered mindfulness?”

— Barbara Claypole White

19. “Seems to me you always have a mind to focus on finding fault, not celebration.”

— Barbara Claypole White

20. “Bless your heart, did I offend? I don’t filter these days. Speaking one’s mind is the sole advantage of age. Sad that we have to wait until our later years to figure that out.”

— Barbara Claypole White

21. “I have a feeling you’re someone who will appreciate that we grow the real beauties here,” Eudora said. “Not the gaudy sun perennials that want to flash everything they’ve got like cheap hookers. You have to look hard to find the pockets of beauty in my garden.”

— Barbara Claypole White

22. “Max gave Dad a high five and then plopped down in the.”

— Barbara Claypole White

23. “Get the oxygen and the AED. Call the.”

— Barbara Claypole White

24. “Except for you.”

— Barbara Claypole White

25. “Did you know that after two teenage boys share a bedroom, the stench is worse than when Saint John’s gun dog rolls in manure?” “Welcome.”

— Barbara Claypole White

26. “What-ifs multiplied like a combat-ready squad of Star Trek Tribbles: cute, furry, and armed with bazookas.”

— Barbara Claypole White

27. “Sammie looked at Harry and they both giggled. And in that shared moment, nothing mattered beyond the school rule about personal displays of affection. And his almost first kiss. When could he try again?”

— Barbara Claypole White

28. “Maybe the dead never really left; maybe everything circled round in a big blur, until endings became beginnings and the wheels of life started moving again.”

— Barbara Claypole White

29. “Mistakes are human. Learn from them, but leave regret where it belongs – in the past. It’s the future we need to pay heed to.”

— Barbara Claypole White

30. “Harry needed some quiet time, Mr. G.” Max sat up as if.”

— Barbara Claypole White

31. “Gotta live outside your comfort zone. That’s where all the good stuff happens.”

— Barbara Claypole White

32. “In my world, one doesn’t discuss mental health. One pretends life is lovely and suffers silently.” “It’s.”

— Barbara Claypole White

33. “As hoped, the place was semideserted.”

— Barbara Claypole White

34. “Behavioral contagion, Harry. Remember the mantra: this is not my stress.”

— Barbara Claypole White

35. “You, hon, need to start living out loud.”

— Barbara Claypole White

36. “Apparently those who did seek treatment did so only because desperate family members had issued ultimatums: get help or we walk. Had he driven his family to desperation – caused his wife’s heart to fail from the stress of living with him; pushed Harry into an action that had endangered his life? Was his desire for control out of control?”

— Barbara Claypole White

37. “We don’t advise Internet research. In our experience, it generates misinformation and unnecessary distress.”

— Barbara Claypole White

38. “That’s what best friends did, figured out life when you couldn’t.”

— Barbara Claypole White

39. “One pretends life is lovely and suffers silently.”

— Barbara Claypole White

40. “Our son is a brilliant teenager who needs to learn independence. You baby – ” “He’s a remarkable person who should be full of insecurity but isn’t – partly because I work hard to bolster him, to praise him, to show him what an incredible person he is, to reinforce that his challenges give him strength, not weakness. I never stop, Felix.” “I.”

— Barbara Claypole White

41. “Passengers in the row behind muttered the Lord’s Prayer. Ella, however, had no plans to make her final peace with God or die in the clouds. She had a battle to conduct on the ground, after she’d cleared baggage claim at the Raleigh-Durham International Airport.”

— Barbara Claypole White