Kellie

“Mothering, she learned the hard way, was about loss as well as love.”
― Attica Locke, The Cutting Season

“What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?”
― Charles M. Schulz

“After the slowing, every action required a little more force than it used to. The physics had changed. Take, for example, the slightly increased drag of a hand on a knife or a finger on a trigger. From then on, we all had a little more time to decide what not to do. And who knows how fast a second-guess can travel? Who has ever measured the exact speed of a regret? But the new gravity was not enough to overcome the pull of certain other forces, more powerful, less known--no law of physics can account for desire.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
― Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu