Jennifer

“We make such a fetish of the family. I think we've created a tremendous mythology about it. We believe the family must be maintained, it's the basis of society, etc. Yet for a great many of us, the family has been difficult. Many of the troubles of mankind are family troubles, more devastating and more lasting than other kinds of troubles. Almost any well-run orphanage would be better than some families I've known. There are countless unjust and narrow-minded families, and parents who bring up children in hatred for reasons that are invalid.
Just being a family is not enough. There has to be agreement: not a narrowing but a widening, not bitterness and misunderstanding but sensibility and justice.”
― Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River

“Because love is tidal; it goes out, it comes in, it goes out.”
― Amity Gaige, Sea Wife

“Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human —”
“THEN — I — DON’T — WANT — TO — BE — HUMAN!” Harry roared.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“I believe that life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.”
― Marjory Stoneman Douglas