Jackie

“My energies knew no bounds and I became more and more interested in civic causes, the first of which was The Tailwaggers. It was an organization that cared for abandoned and lost dogs. Its English progenitor had been started by the Duke of Windsor—now married to the lady at King’s Bench. A lifelong dog lover, I became president of the group and during my tenure of office we trained dogs for the blind. The work became infinitely satisfying and accomplished a twofold purpose. In order to raise money,”
― Bette Davis, The Lonely Life: An Autobiography

“We don’t wear life’s tragedies for everyone to see, now do we? Suppose it would make life a little easier on us all if we did, though. It would sure give us a lot more grace with one another if we could get just a small glimpse of what others have gone through.”
― Megan Squires, A Lake House Holiday

“Hell, the last time we chatted on the phone, she spent forty minutes telling me a sad story about a woman who was diagnosed with leukemia. She knew the woman’s life in such detail, I thought it had to be one of our relatives and I had just missed that part, but as we got further into the nitty-gritty of the woman’s weekly chemotherapy routine, I found out it was just some random person my mom found on Facebook and had been stalking her page ever since.”
― Max Monroe, Accidental Attachment

“people get all wrapped up in the notion that their life has to be so big, so earth shattering, that they forget how significant a simple and quiet life can be, too. How meaningful love and commitment are in such an unpredictable world.”
― Angela Brown, Some Other Time