Deborah

“I hadn’t pegged him as a family annihilator, but I remembered a study I’d read that talked about substance abusers who were also jealous and overly possessive of their partners. It was a lethal cocktail.”
― Bilinda P. Sheehan, All the Lost Girls

“Some things will hurt more than you ever thought possible. They say that painful things will make you stronger and you’ll get past them. But it’s not like that. You just have to decide whether to find beauty in the sting. Because being alive means that you will be stung. Over and over again. But if you can feel it, it means you’re alive. It means you get another chance.” My mother always was the philosopher.”
― Anni Taylor, One Last Child

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
― Maya Angelou

“Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.”
― Patricia Cornwell