Marcia Pottenger

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
― Anais Nin

“As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden