
“Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin' gold
And like the sky my soul is also turnin'
Turnin' from the past, at last and all I've left behind”
― God Willin' & the Creek Don't Rise
And like the sky my soul is also turnin'
Turnin' from the past, at last and all I've left behind”
― God Willin' & the Creek Don't Rise

“What's past is prologue, and the world awaits.”
― Eyes Like Stars
― Eyes Like Stars
“Someday, beyond the clouds and all the world's wrongs, there will be love, compassion and justice, and we shall all understand.”
― To Take Away the Hurt: Insights into Healing
― To Take Away the Hurt: Insights into Healing

“I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.”
― West with the Night
― West with the Night
“I had to cease to mourn what could never be and make the most of what was possible. And I would begin doing that by trying to mend the hurts of the past.”
― The Wild Orchid: A Retelling of The Ballad of Mulan
― The Wild Orchid: A Retelling of The Ballad of Mulan
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