Bea Gustafson

“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

“every present moment is paying for a future one. Just one wrong turn can get you very lost. What you do in the present stays with you. It comes back. You don’t get away with anything.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“Sometimes normal means what we expect something to be.  Abnormal is when we are surprised.”
― Daphne Simpkins, Tricks of the Mind

“you recognize something of your own journeys and setbacks and hard decisions, and take heart in an appreciation of your own strength and resiliency and goodness.”
― Benjamin Hall, Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home