Heather B Blair

“There is always going to be bad in the world. I think that is what makes being good so important.”
― Maryanne O'Hara, Little Matches: A Memoir of Finding Light in the Dark

“She would revel in the pain and beauty of this service and in this film because she knew, more than anyone, that grief and joy are both points on the spectrum of love.”
― Maryanne O'Hara, Little Matches: A Memoir of Finding Light in the Dark

“instead I honestly feel lucky sometimes that I have gotten to feel and experience things that others have to struggle longer and harder to learn.”
― Maryanne O'Hara, Little Matches: A Memoir of Finding Light in the Dark

“When Annetts reflected on the childhood leg braces that drove her to try swimming, she said, "My early physical misfortune has turned out to be the greatest blessing that could have come to me. Without it I should have missed the grim struggke upward and the reward that waited at the end of it all.”
― Michael Loynd, The Watermen: The Birth of American Swimming and One Young Man's Fight to Capture Olympic Gold