Jamie Yake

“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
― Charles Dickens

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“We all fall. Every one of us. We fall, and we fail, and we flail, and we flounder. We do right by someone and end up hurting someone else. We get beat up and we do our share of beating. We screw up more than we succeed. That’s life, babe. But those successes? They’re so bright and beautiful that they swallow the darkness—every blot, stain, and mar on our souls.”
― Megan Thomason, Arbitrate