Jacqueline Brown

“I think people stopped trusting each other, but before that they stopped listening to each other and stopped respecting each other. I also think the majority of people really want to be led. If their leaders are good, they are led to good, but if they are not, then they are not. If our leaders lack virtue and are too selfish or spineless to defend the weak, how can we expect those they lead to be any different.”
― Jacqueline Brown, Out of the Darkness

“Together, the two of you will create a family. Perhaps there will be biological children or adopted children, perhaps not. Perhaps you will live to celebrate sixty-three years of marriage, as Nonie and Pops did, perhaps not. Perhaps you will always be madly in love, perhaps you will not. Life is uncertain, especially given the current state of the world, but what you are doing today is permanent. The two of you will be bound together through this life and the next, in a way that I do not understand but know to be true. I say all of this to scare you just a little,”—he offered me a hint of a smile—“to make sure you are in fact aware that what you are committing to today is not the stuff of fairy tales, it is not about happily ever after. It is about real life, real struggles, real disagreements, and real love. It will not be easy … but it will be worth it.”
― Jacqueline Brown, The Light Series Box Set: The Complete Light Series