Missi Watts

“But the thing is, if you do survive, when it's all said and done, you still have to live with yourself.”
― J.L. Esplin, 96 Miles

“We have practiced for death every night. Lying down in the dark and slipping into that place of nothingness between rest and dreams where we have no consciousness, no self, and anything could befall our vulnerable bodies. We have died each night. Or at least, we have laid down to die, and let go of everything in this world, hoping for dreams and morning.”
― Marianne Cronin, The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

“I hadn’t known that love could not be earned or bought or manipulated; it was just this—complete peace in the other’s presence.”
― Patti Callahan, Becoming Mrs. Lewis

“God's job ain't to make our lives easier, it's to make us better souls by the lessons He gives us.”
― Susan Crandall, Whistling Past the Graveyard