Ashlee Rohnert

“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

“God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.

These are the words we dimly hear:

You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.

Flare up like a flame
and make big shadows I can move in.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don't let yourself lose me.

Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.

Give me your hand.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
― Frida Kahlo

“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