Anne

“Sometimes kindness is a duty, a job that one sets out to accomplish with time and patience and effort. People who feel this way, myself included, fight against some other gnawing instinct within; we bloom like a flower from the dirt.

It's an honorable thing to strive for, and there's nothing bad I can say about that kind of growth.

Other folks, however, don't even think about it. There's some uncanny spark that always pushes them to make the right choice, because they're not even aware a choice exists. It's just what they do.”
― Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

“some people get addicted to feeling bad because whenever they feel good they feel guilty.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Brother

“fell in love with him instantly, marveling at his perfection and that I’d grown him cell by cell in my body. My feelings stemmed from the deepest parts of me, parts I didn’t know existed until I had him. He wasn’t a stranger when they placed him in my arms. It was like a missing piece of myself had been returned.”
― Lucinda Berry, Saving Noah

“Time had dragged. Nobody told me time slowed down with tragedy and how each minute became excruciating when it was painful to merely exist.”
― Lucinda Berry, Saving Noah