Susan Eubank

“We spoke of death, not in a morbid way, but in a pragmatic one.
"It will come," Dad said. "But for now, heaven is here.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks

“The little boy had wandered away from his mother, tacking across the grass to the play structure. His mother watched him go, proud, tickled, unaware that every time they toddled away from you, they came back a little different, ten seconds older and nearer to the day when they left you for good. Pearl divers in training, staying under a few seconds longer every time.”
― Michael Chabon, Telegraph Avenue

“Humanity lives in its fiction.”
― Blaise Cendrars

“We wake up one day and find we have lost our dreams in order to protect our days.”
― Kent Nerburn