Sharon Miller

“Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is to live without joy.”
― Henry BESTON (1888 - 1968), The Outermost House A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod

“I sometimes imagine there is a clerk behind a desk situated between the brain and the mouth. It is his job to examine utterances on their way out, and stamp them with approval or send them back for reconsideration. If such a clerk exists, mine must be very harried and overworked; and on occasion he puts his head down on the desk in despair, letting things pass without so much as a second glance.”
― Marie Brennan, In the Labyrinth of Drakes

“There aren't any normal lives, son. That's the lie that hurts us most.”
― Michael Christie, Greenwood

“And it wasn’t fair to my children that their mother had to heal and put herself back together in the same time span that they grew up.”
― Tia Levings, A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy