Sheri Ackerman

“In my naïveté as a mother and my egocentricity as an actress, I honestly thought that seeing me on the screen would make my children proud.”
― Kate Mulgrew, Born with Teeth

“What I’m learning is that you have to stop doing a whole lot of things to learn what it is you really love, who it is you really are.”
― Shauna Niequist, Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living

“Kindness is not the same as niceness, or putting our heads in the sand, or avoiding conflict. It is acknowledging that no life is as it seems on the surface. It is understanding that we never know all the layers in a life, and choosing to speak and act from that difficult gray place in all of us.”
― Kerry Egan, On Living

“He remained shrouded in his uniform as the graying light arm-wrestled the sky.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief