“ I am giving birth. I am midwife to myself. Now is a new life full of possibilities. I must be strong like a child. Patricia Robin Woodruff
“ It was thus, Archer reflected, that New York managed its transitions; conspiring to ignore them till they were well over, and then, in all good faith, imagining that they had taken place in a precedin… Edith Wharton
“ She told her therapist it reminded her of coming home the summer after her freshman year at Rutgers, stepping back into the warm bath of family and friends, loving it for a week or two, and then feeli… Tom Perrotta
“ The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air.It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh promise and wonder in the skies.Its clear tones re… Vera Nazarian
“ Desperate prayers may be an indication of spiritual health rather than a sign of spiritual deficiency. Jeff Manion
“ Secrets are foolish creatures, I have learned. No longer do I wish to play with fools. Jesikah Sundin
“ In her mind, the ground rumbled and split open revealing the edge into a dark abyss. The shadows were always calling to her. Laughing at her. The familiar strains of loneliness flared under their torm… Jesikah Sundin
“ How boys transitioned from bothersome pests to men who made her pulse skip a beat and her head swim in a flood of pleasurable sensations was beyond her. Perhaps this was the true definition of magic. Jesikah Sundin
“ Don’t waste your time trying to explain yourself to people that are committed to misunderstanding you. Instead, commit your time to explaining who they are to them. When you get a person to see the po… Shannon L. Alder
“ In the hero stories, the call to go on a journey takes the form of a loss, an error, a wound, an unexplainable longing, or a sense of a mission. When any of these happens to us, we are being summoned… David Richo
“ He threw his hands to his eyes and hissed. Like the hiss of incinerating ashes. 'What is this bright, orange orb in the sky that mocks me with its warmth? Jesikah Sundin
“ Not a single rumor whispered on the wind here. He was too high up for such lowly experiences, too removed from the mundane and the pain. For these few blessed moments the rushing sensations blew away… Jesikah Sundin
“ There are basically three types of songs: loved songs, unloved songs, and transitional songs written by tired people in between the two. Love songs are cheesy, unloved songs are depressing, and transi… Ace Boggess
