Suzan Bond

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
― André Gide

“If only we could always say our truths--if we could name the things that haunt us--maybe they could float up from us like the kind of helium that the birds would sip in the treetops. Then they would make us laugh and laugh.”
― Rita Zoey Chin

“When some people talk about money
They speak as if it were a mysterious lover
Who went out to buy milk and never
Came back, and it makes me nostalgic
For the years I lived on coffee and bread,
Hungry all the time, walking to work on payday
Like a woman journeying for water
From a village without a well, then living
One or two nights like everyone else
On roast chicken and red wine.”
― Tracy K. Smith, Life on Mars: Poems