Fox Ivy

“Success is not granted to the talented, rather it is reserved for the doggedly tenacious.”
― W. Michael Gear, People of the Morning Star

“Well, most women are full to the brim, that's all...We are, most of us, ready to explode, especially when our children are small and we are so weary with the demands for love and attention and the kind of service that makes you feel you should be wearing a uniform with "Mommy" embroidered over the left breast, over the heart...If a stranger had come up to me and said, "Do you want to talk about it? I have time to listen," I think I might have burst into tears at the relief of it.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Pull of the Moon

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
― Maurice Sendak

“The human body is like a piece of fabric. No matter how well one cares for it, it frays as it ages.”
― Helene Wecker, The Golem and the Jinni