Ciara

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
― Ivan Turgenev

“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
― Adrienne Rich

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
― Moliere