Beth Gilbert

“Somewhere, out in the world, are the people who touched us, or loved us, or ran from us. In that way we will live on. If you go to the places we have been, you might meet someone who passed us once in a corridor but forgot us before we were even gone. We are in the back of hundreds of people’s photographs—moving, talking, blurring into the background of a picture two strangers have framed on their living room mantelpiece. And in that way, we will live on too. But it isn’t enough. It isn’t enough to have been a particle in the great extant of existence. I want, we want, more. We want for people to know us, to know our story, to know who we are and who we will be. And after we’ve gone, to know who we were.”
― Marianne Cronin, The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

“Love is a visitor.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“We never meet people by chance. They are destined to cross our paths for a reason.”
― Valérie Perrin, Fresh Water for Flowers

“If you ever get the chance to make someone smile, or better yet, make someone laugh, then you take it. Each and every time,” Norma said.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark