Heather Jordan

“Despair was a choice. Hatred was a choice. Anger was a choice. I still had choices, and that knowledge rocked me. I may not have had as many Lester had, but I still had some choices. I could choose to give up or to hang on. Hope was a choice. Faith was a choice. And more than anything else, love was a choice. Compassion was a choice.”
― Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

“I have found it to be absolutely astounding, all the trouble living has turned out to be. Things nobody ever warned me about.”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

“You can’t control the bad things that happen to you. All you can do is decide how much of you you’re going to let them take.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist

“The fantastic and the imaginative aren't escapism . . . Good stories introduce the marvelous. The whole story, paradoxically, strengthens our relish for real life. This excursion sends us back with renewed pleasure to the actual world. It provides meaning. . . It takes us out of ourselves and lets us view reality from new angles. It expands our awareness of the world.”
― Patti Callahan, Once Upon a Wardrobe