Patricia Carpenter

“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

“You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn