Kerry

“I would not have the world be cruel to you,” she emphasized. “I would not have Vincent Astor be cruel to you. But if—when—those things happen, I would not have you be cruel in return. Kinder hearts are stronger, I think.”
― Shana Abe, The Second Mrs. Astor

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton

“Being in love makes all that work easier, but it does not make it go away. There will be necessary sacrifices. There will be pain.”
― Shana Abe, The Second Mrs. Astor

“The nature of hope is curious to me. It can sustain us through the darkest of times. It can buoy us above every reasonable expectation of despair. Yet hope can shatter us just as readily as the darkness can. People refer to it as false hope, but I think that’s misleading, because the feeling itself is painfully true. It is a treacherous hope, more precisely. A dangerous one.”
― Shana Abe, The Second Mrs. Astor