Gretchen Mercado

“There are an endless number of people who have left a love-shaped hole in the heart of someone else.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

“I think fear neutralizes alcohol, weakens its anesthetic power. It's good for small fears; your boss, your wife, your bills, your dentist; all right then to take a drink. But for big ones it doesn't do any good. Like water on blazing gasoline, it will only quicken and compound it. It takes sand, in the literal and the slang sense, to smother the bonfire that is fear. And if you're out of sand, then you must burn up.

("New York Blues")”
― Cornell Woolrich, Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories by Cornell Woolrich

“Fathers be good to your daughters. Daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers who turn in mothers. So, mothers be good to your daughters too.”
― John Mayer, Continuum Music by John Mayer Guitar Tablature Songbook | Rock Guitar Sheet Music Book for Students Teachers and Adult Learners | Authentic TAB Arrangements for Practice Lessons Performance and Study

“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.”
― H.L. Mencken