Stephany McIntyre

“Strength of character has to be worked on, hard . . . Always try many things. Try every way one can think of, when you truly need something important and if you do not see the way, get help . . . All girls and boys, no matter what position they have should be brought up to work these days, or at least know how to. I should think every effort should be to get work for your own dignity . . . TRY to make friends, everyone can with an effort. Everyone has sadness and much trouble and likes a gay pleasant friend about. COURAGE ALL THE TIME.”
― Annejet van der Zijl, An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew

“I felt like an old tree in one of those late autumn gales. The chemo’s job was to strip my leaves and keep them gone. My job was not to get uprooted while the gale blew.”
― Mark Lawrence, One Word Kill

“The state can’t seem to keep the roads paved; you think we should trust them with life-and-death decisions?”
― Nancy Rommelmann, To the Bridge