Sherman

“Silently she stared at the splintered pieces and felt the flame in her soul gutter.  The flame she had nurtured since she was a child. The flame that had in it what little sparks of happiness she had ever known as well as all her hopes and dreams for the future.  She had tended it so carefully and for so long, and in one, horrendous, agonizing second, felt it simply... go out.”
― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

“Half the people think he is a goody and the other half think he is a baddy.” Charlie giggled. “That’s silly,” he said. “That is democracy,” I said. “If you did not have it, you would want it.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“The poem is, then, a little myth of
man’s capacity for making life
meaningful. And in the end, the
poem is not the thing we see—it is,
rather, a light by which we may see
—and what we see is life.”
― Robert Penn Warren

“That was the starting and ending point in life: love. The journey was everything in between.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women