Cathy Nelson

“A life of wealth and a life of riches aren’t always the same.”
― Meg Waite Clayton, The Postmistress of Paris

“We all have scars,” he said. “We all do things we regret. Mortallers, even. Capital S sins. Not a one of us will get into any heaven run by a wrathful god. The thing is to understand that we’re human. Not to imagine how we might have done better, but to accept that we are who we are, that we do the things we do, and if we had a chance to do them again, we’d sure enough make the same choices, because we can’t see around the bend. And what good would a life be if we could? What good would a life be without the gifts, or even without the regrets?”
― Meg Waite Clayton, The Wednesday Daughters

“If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot hurt each other; and what a mercy it is that once in every twenty-four hours we are too utterly weary to go on being unkind. The doors shut, and the lights go out, and the sharpest tongue is silent, and all of us, scolder and scolded, happy and unhappy, master and slave, judge and culprit, are children again, tired, and hushed, and helpless, and forgiven. And”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, The Solitary Summer