Betty Strohecker

“One reads to escape life's troubles rather than dwell upon its more disturbing realities”
― Jennifer McQuiston , Diary of an Accidental Wallflower

“After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

“You cannot meet in the middle with the devil.”
― J.T. Cope IV

“I've always believed that we don't choose the life we want, we choose the life we think we deserve. We self-sabotage as a way to punish ourselves." "Why would we punish ourselves? Doesn't the world punish us enough?" "Why wouldn't we? We live in a world that is always making us work for love. It's cause and effect.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Noel Diary