Carrie Bail

“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

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

“It comes from having my ego so broken down and composted by life that I found myself compelled to cry uncle and say”
― Parker J. Palmer, On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, & Getting Old

“wiser, and that is a miracle because wisdom is not a thing you can acquire for your children.”
― Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River