DeAnn

“Parents, grandparents, maybe aunts or uncles or siblings or family friends. They're all cocooned in their little clusters of support, and it warms me to see that. They're lucky. Even if they don't realize it. They have people in their lives who care enough to brave a rainy night on the waterfront to see their school projects, to hear them speak. To applaud them. It makes all the difference, having a cheerleader. I lost touch with the ones I did have.”
― Debbie Johnson

“My dad always said a person needs three things to be happy: something to do; someone to love; and something to look forward to.”
― Annie Hartnett, The Road to Tender Hearts

“Because the world had decided that to be soft was to be weak, even though in Joan’s experience being soft and flexible was always more durable than being hard and brittle. Admitting you were afraid always took more guts than pretending you weren’t. Being willing to make a mistake got you further than never trying. The world had decided that to be fallible was weak. But we are all fallible. The strong ones are the ones who accept it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“More than anything I hope that this book resonates with you. And I can only hope that you will take away a sound belief that if you’re searching for where you belong you always have a home within yourself. The past dozen years has taught me that being a vagabond is not defined by distance traveled, or the many places I’ve called home. It is about adopting a certain attitude towards life. Much like a painter might consider what to do with a blank canvas, or a gardener with a blank space in the backyard, a vagabond looks upon the world as a field of potential and possibility, where beauty can be not just found but created, and adventure awaits any and all who are willing to seek it out.”
― Tim Curry, Vagabond