Nancy Martira

“While I fear that we're drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe we're defined by what embraces us.”
― J.R. Moehringer, The Tender Bar: A Memoir

“His curse in life was to be attracted to people who understood him.”
― Glen David Gold, Carter Beats the Devil

“The bell on the cat's collar roused her. He'd brought her something: a baby pigeon stolen from its nest, mauled and draped on Jacey's pillowcase. The thing was pink, nearly translucent, with magenta cheeks and lavender around the eyes. It looked like a half-cooked eraser with dreams of someday becoming a prostitute. -- Wild America”
― Wells Tower, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

“A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.”
― Carl Sandburg