Mandy Campbell

“Like everything in life, it is not what happens to you but how you respond to it that counts.”
― Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success

“...she imagines her body curled in the narrow monk's bed, knees to chin, her own irrefutable geography, but she sees the blood of her futile heart seeping out over her chest and arms and legs, flooding across the rough wooden floor, down the narrow wooden stairs and out into the old soil of the garden. No roses, no, she does not even ask to make roses, just dissolution; most any night she asks just for that.”
― Michelle Latiolais, Widow: Stories

“I know how it feels when people look right through you, or worse, see you as something or someone other than what you are.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“For all her culture's attention to the physical, it seemingly has little to salve the creatural anguish of losing someone else's body, their touch, their heat, their oceanic heart...she doesn't want another body, she wants the body she loved, the forceps scar across his cheek that she traced with her hand, his penis, its elegant sweep to the side, the preternaturally soft skin. One wants what one has loved, not the idea of love.”
― Michelle Latiolais, Widow: Stories