Val Salamon

“He clamped his eyes shut and waited for the pang of something he could no longer name to subside; it plucked at steel threads holding him together and reverberated through his system.”
― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath

“The seeds of the day are best planted in the first hour. DUTCH PROVERB”
― Robert Fulghum, From Beginning to End: The Rituals of Our Lives

“And she had gone off from her husband to live by herself with the priests, had she not? Does a man, seeing a trinket lying before him in the grass, fail to pick it up?”
― Jane Smiley, The Greenlanders

“That those who entered such nursing homes needed meaning—a life, an identity, dignity, self-respect, a degree of autonomy—was ignored or bypassed;”
― Oliver Sacks, On the Move: A Life