Lacey Conrad

“He carries no burden, he feels no pain. What man, like woman, lies down in the darkness and gets up with child? The gentle, smiling ones own the good secret. Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make flesh that holds fast and binds eternity.”
― Ray Bradbury

“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“After my daughter was born, I’d considered buying a shotgun to ward off potential suitors fourteen or so years up the road. Now, as I listened to these girls babble and imagined Gabby one day talking with the same banality and ignorance of the English language, I thought of buying the same shotgun to blow my own fucking head off.”
― Dennis Lehane, Moonlight Mile

“We are only fully human when we act as if the life beyond us matters.”
― Caspar Henderson