Wendy Barto

“Perhaps that’s why I find myself looking backward. The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“Maybe life is just carrying news. Surviving to carry the news. Maybe we have just one message, and it is delivered to us when we are born and we are never sure what it says; it may have nothing to do with us personally but it must be carried by hand through a life, all the way, and at the end handed over, sealed.”
― Paulette Jiles, News of the World

“You must always remember that sometimes knocking on doors just isn’t enough.” “What else is there in a case like this?” “Sometimes, if you want something badly enough, you have to smash the damn door down.”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Things We Cannot Say