Patricia Carpenter

“The secret to a happy life is not in getting what you want. It is in learning to want what you get”
― Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses

“But it is the lilacs that truly herald the coming of spring: lavender and white and blue and sometimes a purple deep as grapes, they bloom in the alleys and over backyard fences and in graveyards. Beauty is everywhere, including the most unexpected places. There is no respite from it.”
― jena blum

“Quitting leads to much less happiness in life than perseverance and hope.”
― Linda Sue Park, A Long Walk to Water

“For one of the odd things about death, Trudy has discovered, is that in its wake one must go about business as usual; it seems heartless and wrong, but now that the rituals of mourning have been attended to, the sole task left to Trudy is to try and comprehend the enormity of this sudden change.”
― jena blum