Nancy E Teeter

“As it happens, I do. But whether you believe or not, I think prayer is an act of love, a conscious desire for good. It also helps to create a separate space for what you feel regarding the well-being of others.”
― Kerry Anne King, I Wish You Happy

“The jump from ten to twenty-five was a lifetime. The leap from twenty-five to forty was but a long weekend.”
― Amy Harmon, The Unknown Beloved

“managed to reach with friends made later in life. The people who knew you when you were learning to know yourself had a more honest picture. They’d seen you when you were not yet entirely formed, when your outer shell hadn’t quite sealed around you. As a result, there was less pretending. Friends like that would never let you get away with the stories that you could spin around yourself with newer people. And even though that could be scarily exposing, it was also good to be around them. You could skip past all that small talk and pleasantries stuff and cut straight to the heart of whichever matter needed to be discussed.”
― Imogen Clark, Impossible to Forget

“Loving him was perhaps like peering into the rain—a sort of sightlessness, akin to stumbling about in a storm, grabbing the things you want to find, and letting the others wash away.”
― Ann Howard Creel, The Whiskey Sea