Ashlee Rohnert

“Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.”
― St. Therese of Lisieux

“joy is not found in the things which surround us, but lives only in the soul.”
― Thérèse de Lisieux, The Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux (annotated

“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chilliest land
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“I miss him all the time. But it’s moments like this, when I’m on the precipice of finally doing work that might just expand my heart, that I wish I could at least send him a letter, telling him what I’m doing. And I wish that he could send me one back. I already know what he would write. Something like “I’m proud of you. I love you.” But still, I’d like to get one anyway.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo