# Quote — Patricia Reilly Giff, Water Street

> How could she know what she wanted to do with her life? All these years she thought she'd be a healer like Mama, and now she knew it was never going to happen.

- Author: [Patricia Reilly Giff](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-reilly-giff.md)
- Book: [Water Street](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-reilly-giff/water-street.md)
- Page: 64
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Patricia_Reilly_Giff#Chapters_11-20) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-reilly-giff/water-street/how-could-she

## More from this book

> He was laughing again. What was it about Bird that made him do that?

p. 73 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-reilly-giff/water-street/he-was-laughing.md)

> "With just the sweep of a pen, Thomas, you can change the world, all of it."

p. 3 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-reilly-giff/water-street/with-just-the.md)

> But that was a realworld, and he didn't have to put it down on paper. He ripped the page out of the book, tore it into shreds, and threw them behind the tree, where they settled into the weeds.

p. 15 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-reilly-giff/water-street/but-that-was.md)