Renee

“We did not ask for this room or this music. We were invited in. Therefore, because the dark surrounds us, let us turn our faces to the light. Let us endure hardship to be grateful for plenty. We have been given pain to be astounded by joy. We have been given life to deny death. We did not ask for this room or this music. But because we are here, let us dance.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“You should have noticed by now, sometimes a monster looks just like any other man.”
― Helen Maryles Shankman, In the Land of Armadillos: Stories

“You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.”
― Paolo Coelho