Jeanne

“You are not required to start over, but you are required to keep going.”
― Gwen Bristow

“It is said that every life has its roses and thorns; there seemed, however, to have been a misadventure or mistake in Stephen’s case, whereby somebody else had become possessed of his roses, and he had become possessed of somebody else’s thorns in addition to his own.”
― Charles Dickens, Hard Times

“My family, my country—right or wrong.’ It is the ultimate betrayal of God.”
― Anne Perry, A Sunless Sea

“Reading well adds to our life—not in the way a tool from the hardware store adds to our life, for a tool does us no good once lost or broken, but in the way a friendship adds to our life, altering us forever.”
― Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books