Mary

“The living walk by the edge of a vast lake near the wise, drowned silence of the dead.”
― Carol Ann Duffy, The World's Wife

“Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.”
― Heath Ledger

“If you have not confronted true horrors, understood evil, suffered hopelessness and despair, found faith, and made yourself completely accountable for your own choices, actions and outcomes, then I can guarantee that any acceptance you pretend to have will be as brittle and temporary as a snowball in the middle of summer.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Crane War

“Look, we all have wishes; granted.
But who has wishes granted?”
― Carol Ann Duffy, New Selected Poems, 1984-2004