Michelle Bates

“Heroes are not born or created. They become so in the passing moments of life. When something or someone demands you be more than you have been, when you must put aside your own needs and what is best for you to fight for another, no matter the cost. The past, the day-to-day living becomes irrelevant. All that matters is that instant when the ticking of the clock is louder than an ocean’s wave hitting the rocks, when time does not stand still, but slows, every second longer than the last one. This is when the decision becomes the only thing you can hear and see. When the choice falls out of your hand and fate intervenes. When your life is no longer yours but conjoined with another’s, each dependent upon the other to survive and thrive.”
― Sejal Badani, Trail of Broken Wings

“Men need to support women and, I wish it went without saying, women need to support women too.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

“You can always tell what somebody really wants to do, because that’s what they’re doing.”
― Glynnis MacNicol, The 10 Habits of Highly Successful Women

“The streets are full of in-betweens, and no one is alarmed by the ghosts that live among us. Everyone here knows that the past inhabits the future. For now, I’m home.”
― Katie Gilmartin, Blackmail, My Love: A Murder Mystery