Ida

“Times like this were special. Memory builders. When something extraordinary happened to a person the
kind of things remembered forever after it didn't have to be a life-changing event like a graduation or
marriage or birth of a child. It more often was the small things. The sheer joy of summer sunlight on a
fragrant flower. The giggle of a toddler. The brush of a lover's fingertips. And the person marks the
moment with the flashing insight thinking... This is special. I should remember this”
― Sandra Hill, Tall, Dark, and Cajun

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton

“There is a wilderness we walk alone
However well-companioned”
― Stephen Vincent Benét, Western Star

“He stared at her breasts incredulously, but not with lust. "For the love of Freya! You wear Ruby's strange undergarment. Lingerie, methinks she named it."
"This is not my mother's bra." Rain clamped her jaw shut defiantly, then demanded to know, "How did you ever see my mother's underwear?”
― Sandra Hill, The Outlaw Viking