“ Yes, my sister is weird and says crap like en route. I smirk - it's a common facial tic of mine - and turn to her. Stacey Wallace Benefiel
“ Never go on a date unarmed.” Words of wisdom from my father. Well, my foster father. I was an orphan, of course. The best kings always are. Brandon Sanderson
“ I really want to believe that when our Quiet Waters kids wake up in the middle of the night, scared, they’ll remember being in their bunks with John and Kate and Whit and me right there protecting the… Laura Anderson Kurk
“ Weeping Widows"There is a river that cuts ThroughThe heart of EveAnd flows throughParadise's back window.It streams into A bottomless wellThat rolls down to hellWith the tears of theWeeping widows.The… Suzy Kassem
“ Turn it beautiful. His words came faintly at first, but they came again and again, always softly, always with the insistence of an elder commanding wisdom. Turn it all to beauty. She walked to the rai… A.S. Peterson
“ It’s a neighborhood where every dad has at least one job and where parents often end conversations with the words: no guts, no glory. Michael Jay
“ Maybe it was being orphaned and alone all my life, but I always steeled for the worst outcome I could envision. That way I could shrug and be almost happy with anything that fell short of the worst. I… James Anderson
“ And after that until the end, there was no relief from being a girl with chores that she wasn’t being paid for, a girl with no new sandals and a friend who wasn’t a friend but a mistress, and a family… Ru Freeman
“ Well, finally, once you become an orphan, you're an orphan till the day you die. I keep having the same dream. I'm seven years old and an orphan again. All alone, with no adults around to take care of… Haruki Murakami
