Gena Lott

“There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential.”
― Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

“Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

“Count your joys instead of your woes; Count your friends instead of your foes." - Irish Saying”
― Cedric Kelly, 202 Irish Quotes, Proverbs and Sayings

“A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines. The island of Manhattan is without any doubt the greatest human concentrate on earth, the poem whose magic is comprehensible to millions of permanent residents but whose full meaning will always remain elusive.”
― E.B. White, Here Is New York