Sarah

“After tens of thousands of pages, they’ve circled back to Tolstoy and are now a good inch and a half into Anna Karenina. Dot resumes the story with no trace of self-consciousness or shame, no hint that art and life have enrolled in the same drawing class. And that, for Ray, is the greatest mercy fiction gives: proof that the worst the two of them have done to each other is just another tale worth reading together, at the end of the day.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“I think that is the very definition of a family: a group of individuals, bound by the essence of love, who share a life together and yet maintain their unique individuality.”
― Kathy Magliato, Healing Hearts: A Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon

“You can tell the character of a person by their handshake.”
― Kathy Magliato, Healing Hearts: A Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon

“Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart: Inspirational Thoughts for Living Your Best Life