Janet

“Where do the periwinkles go in rain like that? It’s not that I’m unaware of the suffering and the soon-to-be-more suffering in the world, it’s that I know the suffering exists beside wet grass and a bright blue sky recently scrubbed by rain. The beauty and the suffering are equally true. Our Town taught me that. I had memorized the lessons”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

“Maybe heaven is getting to live forever in one really wonderful moment....I've made a point of collecting happy moments, ones I might like to live in for all time.”
― Sharyn McCrumb, Ghost Riders

“Pleasure is life,...and most of us don't have it, or not much, or mess it up, and when we see it in those blues, those roses, those oranges, that vermilion, we should fall down and worship - for it is the thing itself.”
― AS Byatt

“Her fingers remembered the slow, careful work in the wood, with a quiet grief, that didn't diminish, but was manageable.”
― A.S. Byatt, The Matisse Stories