Top 50 Hazel Gaynor Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Give the world your best, and the best will come back to you.”

— Hazel Gaynor

2. “Good news comes in large packages.”

— Hazel Gaynor

3. “Wonderful adventures await for those who dare to find them.”

— Hazel Gaynor

4. “Even the brave were once afraid. However well I might hide it, the truth is, I am terrified.”

— Hazel Gaynor

5. “They say time is a great healer, but they are wrong. Time is a great illusionist, that’s all. It tricks and it taunts. It sweeps away minutes and hours, months and years without any release from this endless wondering.”

— Hazel Gaynor

6. “At the bottom of the ravine was a glittering stream, about two feet in depth and six feet wide. A waterfall plunged from a shelf of shale rock to the right, tumbling in three broad steps toward the stream, where the water bubbled and boiled. Dappled shade from the trees cast intriguing shadows onto the water, while the flickering sunlight painted the early spring foliage in shades of gold and emerald and soft buttery yellow.”

— Hazel Gaynor

7. “We are the sum of those who have touched our lives in one way or another.”

— Hazel Gaynor

8. “Now you look here. All your father ever dreamed of for you was to do something you loved in life. He didn’t care about fancy qualifications or fancy clothes or cars, just that you were both happy and fulfilled. He was so excited about your dreams for a career.”

— Hazel Gaynor

9. “As Pappy always said, possibility is where all the best stories begin.”

— Hazel Gaynor

10. “With my arms wrapped around Rosebud, I dreamed of heather-topped hills and sleepy valleys and a pretty woodland stream where dragonflies danced across the water as I sat down among the ferns and the meadowsweet, waiting for the summer to find me.”

— Hazel Gaynor

11. “But wishes, like fairies, are fickle things. They rarely do what you want them to do.”

— Hazel Gaynor

12. “It is only by believing in magic that we can ever hope to find it.”

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13. “We shouldn’t take our life for granted, and we should do whatever we can to make ourselves happy.”

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14. “They tell you that it will pass, that there’ll be a day when you wake up and your heart doesn’t ache, a day when you don’t cry, but laugh and smile and remember the person you’ve lost with great fondness. You can’t believe that day will ever come. But it does, doesn’t it? Somehow, it does.”

— Hazel Gaynor

15. “We women are not as sheltered from the world as we once were. War is opening the world up for us. What sad irony is that?”

— Hazel Gaynor

16. “That was when I saw the first flash of emerald, then another of blue, then yellow, glimpsed out of the corner of my eye. Not dragonflies. Not butterflies. Something else. Something moving among a cluster of harebells, the delicate white flowers nodding as their petals and leaves were disturbed by the slightest of movements, like a gentle breeze blowing against them and yet there wasn’t the slightest breath of wind at the beck that day.”

— Hazel Gaynor

17. “There will always be someone willing to save us, Grace. Even a stranger whose name we don’t know. That is the very best of humanity. That is what puts my mind at ease on a day like today.”

— Hazel Gaynor

18. “Yorkshire’s autumn was as great a gift as Yorkshire’s summer. I loved watching the rusting of the leaves while the dales mellowed to shades of ochre, and rose hips and blackberries grew deliciously fat on their branches. The morning mists were mystical and magical to me, and the rose-glow of the evening sun lent the sky a hypnotic light that matched any Cape Town sunset.”

— Hazel Gaynor

19. “We can’t always change the situations life puts us in, but we can change the way we respond.”

— Hazel Gaynor

20. “There is more to every photograph than what we see-more to the story than the one the camera captures on the plate. You have to look behind the picture to discover the truth.”

— Hazel Gaynor

21. “For there is no friend like a sister In calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray, To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands. – Christina Rossetti, “Goblin Market,” 1862.”

— Hazel Gaynor

22. “You don’t need anybody’s permission to live the life you desire, Olivia. You need only the permission of your heart.”

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23. “I hope Christmas was bearable over there. How long we anticipate it and how quickly it passes.”

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24. “I suppose people move on, history moves on, and there will, sadly, always be something more terrible waiting around the corner.”

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25. “So I care for this restless fluttering in my heart as if it were a bird with a broken wing, in the hope that it will one day heal and fly.”

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26. “As her dreams intensified, the red-haired girl became so real to Olivia that she found herself absentmindedly sketching her image during the day, bringing her to life on the page. She drew her surrounded by the flowers she held in her hands- white harebell, pink campion, and yellow cinquefoil- entwining them into the curls in her hair, until the flowers and plants were not around her, but part of her. A true child of the woodland.”

— Hazel Gaynor

27. “Perhaps we must find something to attach ourselves to in such unsettling times. Sometimes, I feel I could be blown away on a breeze like a dandelion seed if I don’t grasp hold of something solid and permanent and unchanging.”

— Hazel Gaynor

28. “We have to believe in the possibility of happy endings, sure we do, otherwise what’s it all for?”

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29. “In that moment, and perhaps for much longer, it seemed to me that the possibility of believing in fairies was more important than one little girl telling the truth.”

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30. “As I lay in the dark, listening to the distant rush of the waterfall, I hoped that part of me would always be nine and a half, and that even when I was an adult and had to face the world with all its grown-up responsibilities, part of me would always know the excitement of the fascinating things I’d seen at the beck. I couldn’t imagine anything worse than a life without such wonders. How dull and sad life would be if it was all work and chores and war.”

— Hazel Gaynor

31. “She’d always imagined an autumn wedding: russet leaves and black velvets and dancing to Fred Astaire.”

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32. “Journalism isn’t about sugarcoating everything to make it more palatable.”

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33. “It’s more fun to believe, isn’t it? And one thing’s for certain. You’ll never see them if you don’t.”

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34. “Being so tall and slim, she was a rather dainty girl. She gave the impression that there was too much life inside her, fighting to find a way out through the long teenage limbs she couldn’t quite control. She wasn’t entirely unlike Alice, after all.”

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35. “But remember always, as I told you at first, that this is all a fairy tale, and only fun and pretense; and, therefore, you are not to believe a word of it, even if it is true.”

— Hazel Gaynor

36. “Olivia said that explanations were the thief of wonder, and that she was happy to live without one.”

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37. “It was on the warmest days when I saw them most clearly, days when the sun dawdled high in the sky, tinting everything with rich gold and amber as long shadows played lazy games of hide-and-seek among the trees and ferns. Like the wildflowers that decorated the riverbank, my fairy friends grew more abundant as the summer went on, multiplying in numbers and strengthening in color, the pale yellows and greens evolving into mauves and pinks.”

— Hazel Gaynor

38. “As she walked, she thought about the determined, inquisitive little girl she’d once been and the determined, optimistic woman she’d always imagined she would become.”

— Hazel Gaynor

39. “I know you will never forget what happened, but sometimes a different view in the morning, a different shape to the day, can help to heal even the deepest wounds.”

— Hazel Gaynor

40. “Time, you see, can be measured in means other than the ticking of the clock.”

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41. “I find myself wondering if real, honest love can flourish in times of war, or if we are all just grasping desperately to the slightest suggestion of it, like drowning men clinging to life.”

— Hazel Gaynor

42. “As they shook on it, Olivia wondered why it was that some hands felt right together, like pieces of a jigsaw slotting into place, and she remembered how Pappy always said that we didn’t always have to look for an explanation. That sometimes it was far nicer to just let things be.”

— Hazel Gaynor

43. “In those quiet moments, Olivia realized how lovely it was to have someone to do nothing with, to just stand with, and watch and think with.”

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44. “Sometimes, I feel I could be blown away on the breeze like a dandelion seed if I don’t grasp hold of something solid and permanent and unchanging. No wonder we all flock to church every Sunday. There is a comfort in such permanence as that offered by the centuries-old walls and a vicar who is nearly as old.”

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45. “No matter how many charts and maps we study, or how cleverly we believe ourselves able to interpret the change in atmosphere or the shape of the clouds or the movement of the waves, we can never truly know what the day will bring; cannot plan for every eventuality. Only as each dreadful misfortune or delightful surprise unfolds can we choose how to respond; fleeting decisions made in an instant but which carry an echo across a lifetime.”

— Hazel Gaynor

46. “I think they understand more than we know,” Minnie replied. “But, you’re right. Children don’t deal in consequences. They have a wonderful capacity for living in the now, while we’re forever imagining the worst, and ’what-iffing.”

— Hazel Gaynor

47. “What’s bothering me is who will look after the sunflower when we’re gone?” Sprout whispered. I stared at the ceiling. “It will have to look after itself now. In the end, I suppose we all do, don’t we.”

— Hazel Gaynor

48. “I know the midst of war is far from the ideal place to fall in love, but true love does not care for time nor place. It will strike whenever and wherever it is supposed to, however improbable it might seem.”

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49. “In belief, there is hope and wonder. In seeing, there is often question and doubt.”

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50. “Books are a feast for the imagination,” Mrs. Trevellyan announced as she wafted around her room like a will-o’-the-wisp. “Who cares if there’s barbed wire around the walls. This is our escape.”

— Hazel Gaynor