Genny

“A child became her mother's world, filling her days and simultaneously filling her heart.”
― Madeline Martin

“... Both are terrible, hopeless situations where fate has wrested all control from your hands. Yet you two dared confront fate, to say. 'We're not done yet.' You said to fate, 'You may control our circumstance but not what we think, not who we are, not how we react.' Fate gives to those who challenge it. It must. To be so bold is remarkable, whether you know it or not.”
― Connie Lapallo, The Sun Is But A Morning Star

“Few people lived, as she did, with the constant feeling of having been born at the wrong time and in the wrong place. And fewer still realized, as she did, that all that was worth admiring, all that was beautiful and sublime, seemed to be vanishing with hardly a trace.”
― Natalia Sanmartín Fenollera, The Awakening of Miss Prim: A Novel

“I have learned a lot of lessons doing my job that might be valuable to other people. For example, there are times in life that you're just going to have to stand in a hole filled with manure to get the job done, and when that happens you do it and then you just wash it off and take satisfaction that you did a good job.”
― Jan Pol, Never Turn Your Back on an Angus Cow: My Life As a Country Vet