Carrie Bail

“The act of mothering is not limited to the bearing of children.”
― Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River

“Wholeness does not mean perfection—it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.”
― Parker J. Palmer, On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, & Getting Old

“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

“It is youth’s gift not to feel its debts.”
― Madeline Miller