Joy Bishop

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
― James A. Baldwin

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison