Bailey Allen

“No, this is serious, Ollie. So I'm watching this spider building its web in the corner of the window. First it does the main parts, then the little connector rods. It's like so careful and precise, right? And then just when it's done, Mrs. Halverson comes over and says, 'It's so stuffy in here I can hardly breathe. Let's have some air,' and opens the window. And boom, all the spider's work was gone." He paused. "Made me think, man, that was just like life."

I touched his cheek. "What do you mean, silly boy?"

"You work and work, and all it takes is one bitch to ruin everything."

Ollie stared ahead steadily and said, "I think it shows that sometimes for one person to keep breathing, something else has to stop.”
― Michele Jaffe, Rosebush

“Though I knew in my mind that others had felt such loss, this loss was mine, and I felt that no one would ever understand it, and to try to explain the lonliness and pain I felt would be futile.”
― Linda Hawley, Dreams Unleashed

“Don't let them make you doubt yourself. All the greatest visionaries in history have been told they were insane at some point.”
― Michele Jaffe, Rosebush

“The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference.”
― Wilhelm Stekel, The Beloved Ego: Foundations of the New Study of the Psyche