DeAnn

“Joy and sorrow often travel the same road and sometimes, whether by grace or misfortune, they meet and become each other's companion.”
― Vaddey Ratner, In the Shadow of the Banyan

“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

“When picking up the pieces of a shattered reality, love is an absolute vital place to start. It is the force that moves the soul through dimensions, the permeating energy that flows in and through all that we are and will be.”
― Tariq Trotter, The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are

“She hated him because he was handsome and charming and they lived in a world where a man didn’t have to be anything else.”
― Ally Carter, The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year