Brooke Witte

“I’d thought love meant settling and perhaps even boredom, but the reality was so different. It was kindness and patience and steadfastness. It was knowing what the other person needed and doing it with a glad heart, not for any sort of reward other than love itself.”
― Donna Jones Alward, When the World Fell Silent

“He had seen a birthday party, with one child singled out and celebrated on his day, so that now he understood the joy of being an individual, special and unique and proud.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“But what could Reverend Goode be afraid of?” My mother smiled. “Us,” she said. “Women.”
― Emilia Hart, Weyward

“Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost. —DANTE ALIGHIERI, THE INFERNO”
― Kristin Hannah, Night Road