Jay Beane

“A mother can be only as happy as her unhappiest child.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Unsheltered

“I don’t believe in God. But sitting there, in a room full of those who feel otherwise, I realize that I do believe in people. In their strength to help each other, and to thrive in spite of the odds. I believe that the extraordinary trumps the ordinary, any day. I believe that having something to hope for—even if it’s just a better tomorrow—is the most powerful drug on this planet.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“I suppose that’s the nature of pessimism; it forecloses the imagination of hope.”
― Zoë Schlanger, The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

“All things did work together for my good, but not automatically. I had to choose to create good from it and turn my traumas into strength.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Growing Up in and Breaking Away from the Secretive Religious Family That Changed My Life