Brenda

“I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”
― Chaim Potok, The Chosen

“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
― Howard Nemerov

“One is happy once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.”
― George Sand, Correspondance, 1812-1876; Volume 5

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin