Cara Stone

“They'd shake their heads and hug me too long and say, 'How. Are. You. Doing?' When I'd say, in all honesty, that I was fine, they'd look to the sky, nod their heads, and ask for the truth. Well, the truth was that I was doing great, until I saw their funereal fucking faces. Now, I felt like slapping someone.”
― Meredith Norton, Lopsided: How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting

“Granny was right,' I said. 'When you forgive someone it does make you stronger. It makes your heart bigger than your hate.”
― Jack Gantos, I Am Not Joey Pigza

“EVERY TIME I see a dog in a movie, I think the same thing: I want that dog. I see Skip or Lucy or Shiloh and for a moment I can’t even think about the movie’s plot. I can only think about the dog. I want to hold it, pet it, take it for walks, and tell it what a good dog it is. I want to love it, and I want it to love me. I have an empty space inside myself that can only be filled by a dog.”
― Roger Ebert, Life Itself

“My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent”
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg