Sandra Gassner

“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.”
― Sophocles

“My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.”
― Jodi Picoult

“What have I told you about death?” Old Lady said sharply into the phone, her voice sounding stronger than it had at the beginning of their conversation. Marjorie tugged at the cord. Old Lady said that only bodies died. Spirits wandered. They found Asamando, or they didn’t. They stayed with their descendants to guide them through life, to comfort them, sometimes to scare them into waking from their fog of unloving, unliving.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing