Marty Button

“The rain to the wind said,
You push and I'll pelt.'
They so smote the garden bed
That the flowers actually knelt,
And lay lodged--though not dead.
I know how the flowers felt.”
― Robert Frost

“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.”
― Anne Lamott

“Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting