Bea Gustafson

“Hope is how we create new facts.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“It feels like this perfectly glassy ocean. Like being out on the ocean but no surf and no swells and no wind. Just all this silence. All this lack of movement. Nothing moves at all. The world is just still. Which almost sounds nice, except it doesn’t feel nice. There’s some kind of heaviness to it. It feels dark and thick. And it gets even less nice when all of a sudden you realize you’re a sailboat. And you’re just going nowhere.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Falling Apart and Other Gifts from the Universe

“Life has sorrows that layer inside of you, and sometimes those sorrows flow unchecked by pride. It hurts to be human.”
― Daphne Simpkins, Tricks of the Mind

“No, she wasn’t an artist. But that didn’t mean she couldn’t play. There was something so sensual about it, about painting the plump, juicy rounds of a crimson drop of blood, something so transporting about losing herself in the curve of the brush against the surface. It was the only time she could stop thinking. She became the colors, the light, a prism through which something could be reflected, however poorly.”
― Barbara O'Neal, A Piece of Heaven