Heather

“Regret is a time machine to the past.
Worry is a time machine to the future.
Gratitude is a time machine to the present.”
― Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

“In this world, you learn to hold the good days and bad days together in your lungs, and you don’t dare breathe out, for fear that in releasing the bad days, you’ll also lose the good ones. On the walk home, I think, this has been a good day.”
― Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

“Believe me,' the badshah says, 'today or tomorrow, every one of us will lose someone close to us, someone we love. The lucky ones are those who can grow old pretending they have some control over their lives, but even they will realize at some point that everything is uncertain, bound to disappear forever. We are just specks of dust in this world, glimmering for a moment in the sunlight, and then disappearing into nothing. You have to learn to make your peace with that.”
― Deepa Anappara, Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

“Of his enemies in the Church, the insurgent priest said they were Catholic “only to benefit themselves: their God is money. Under the veil of religion and of friendship they want to make you the victims of their insatiable greed.”
― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda