Margo Ball

“This came as a strange letdown, to see how the game always went to those who knew the rules without understanding the lesson.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“Sometimes something comes along and tears your roots right out the ground, and that’s when you know you been planted too long.”
― Sheri Reynolds, A Gracious Plenty

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“The Friend of Your Youth is the only friend you will ever have, for he does not really see you. He sees in his mind a face which does not exist anymore, speaks a name…which belongs to that non-existent face but which by some inane and doddering confusion of the universe is for the moment attached to a not too happily met and boring stranger.”
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men