Katy

“In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis; no, it entered my bloodstream directly, as powerful as heroin. I could feel it pump and surge, the way it brightened my veins to a kind of glass. I had wakened that morning to narrowness and predestination and now I was falling asleep in the storm of my own free will.”
― Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries

“Sometimes our stop-doing list needs to be bigger than our to-do list.”
― Patti Digh, Four-Word Self-Help: Simple Wisdom For Complex Lives

“Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.”
― Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries

“People are freer in America. But there are more tears.”
― Avi, City of Orphans