Fran Hepburn

“Assumptions and expectations will kill any relationship, so let’s you and me not go there, okay?”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“she considered a language that could carry nothing but love and simple truth.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer

“That message is simple: When you come to one of the many moments in life when you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world, do not, I pray, discount that you filled a dying man’s days with a sated joy, a joy unknown to me in all my prior years, a joy that does not hunger for more and more, but rests, satisfied. In this time, right now, that is an enormous thing.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“But memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they fade and die.”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being