Stephanie

“It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted task: that of creating our own lives.”
― Thomas Merton

“The answer, I'm guessing, is probably the best and most sustaining answer to nearly every question arising inside a marriage, no matter who you are or what the issue is: You find ways to adapt. If you're in it forever, there's really no choice.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“I wanted to give her a lot of things. I wanted what I had to be hers. I wondered if this was what it felt like to love someone. I already knew what it meant to be in love with someone. I'd felt it, and I'd acted it. But to love someone. To care for them. To throw your lot in with theirs and think, Whatever happens, it's you and me.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo