Marla Pike

“This life we’re given is so short. It’ll be gone before you know it and, son, you’re a good man. You’re a loving, kind, generous man with so much more to give than flashy resorts. Always have been. Just because you allow yourself to love doesn’t mean that some higher power will steal that person away from you—or steal you away from her. If you don’t allow yourself to love, to fully saturate yourself with someone else’s life, someone else’s feelings, if you don’t allow your ego to disappear and your heart to beat for another person, so that every breath you take is taken for that person, well, then, I’m afraid you’ll be missing out on one of life’s only blessings.”
― Melissa Foster, Lovers At Heart

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. Benjamin Franklin.”
― Sandra Owens, Someone Like Her

“I don’t think you understand, since you’re not married, but there’s no making Tallie do anything. Ever. If the thought strikes her that she wants something, then she and I both have to do everything required in order to be sure she gets it.” “You”
― Catherine Gayle, Ghost Dance

“Aristotle said ‘we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.’” He”
― Toni Aleo, Breaking Away