Orpha Orlof

“I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.”
― Sylvia Plath, Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Suffering comes to us as an interrogator. It asks, “Who are you?”
― David A. Fiensy, The Journey: Spiritual Growth in Galatians and Philippians

“The question of race was like the power of the moon in my house. It’s what made the river flow, the ocean swell, and the tide rise, but it was a silent power, intractable, indomitable, indisputable, and thus completely ignorable.”
― James McBride, The Color of Water

“You're a wonderful person, Jamie. You're beautiful, you're kind, you're gentle...you're everything that I'd like to be. If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember