Corinne Rodrigues

“I waited for the feeling of heaviness to leave my brain. I wondered if you could ever out-run your thoughts and leave them behind in a pile of gravel on the pavement for someone else to sweep up. I ran and I ran.”
― Amy Bratley, The Girls' Guide to Homemaking

“Sometimes love does that—it presents itself cloaked in something darker, in odd shapes, in tears and groans and messes, because just like the rest of us, love is afraid to be itself. Sometimes to catch love, you have to hold it to the ground, strip it down, wash the dirt away, and wait. But love will eventually surface to breathe. Most of the time.”
― Rebekah Crane, Postcards for a Songbird

“Take some advice from an old woman, Abbie. There’s no such thing as a wrong decision. You make your choices in life based on the cards played to you and your emotions at the time. Whatever will be will be, you can’t change fate.’ ‘Thank”
― Charlotte Fallowfield, Never The Bride

“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better.”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life