Rachel

“The strange thing about reaching your fifties is that, although your outsides might be gradually falling apart, on the inside you don’t feel any different from the way you did in your twenties. I still don’t feel like a “proper adult,” and I don’t expect that I will at seventy, either.”
― Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

“To love with forgiveness, to love without deserving, to love when the truth has been exposed, to love with a heart that gathers the other into itself.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, The Story She Left Behind

“You get a dog and you know two things—you’re going to fall in love with it and it’s going to die one day. You knowingly walk headfirst into a heartbreak. That’s the basic madness of dog ownership.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“Nothing in magic is gained by aiming straight for it. As in life, it is the failures that prove to be most valuable because it is in failure that you learn anything useful, about the world or about yourself.”
― Grady Hendrix, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls