Carolyn

“When a bone breaks, it heals stronger in the cracks. I realize this is what is happening to her heart.”
― Nayomi Munaweera, Island of a Thousand Mirrors

“I read once that you get deja vu when the two halves of your brain process things at different speeds: the right half a few seconds before the left, or vice versa…that would explain the weird double feeling that it leaves you with, like the world is splitting in half--or you are.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“Now I dream of the soft touch of women, the songs of birds, the smell of soil crumbling between my fingers, and the brilliant green of plants that I diligently nurture. I am looking for land to buy and I will sow it with deer and wild pigs and birds and cottonwoods and sycamores and build a pond and the ducks will come and fish will rise in the early evening light and take the insects into their jaws. There will be paths through this forest and you and I will lose ourselves in the soft curves and folds of the ground. We will come to the water’s edge and lie on the grass and there will be a small, unobtrusive sign that says, THIS IS THE REAL WORLD, MUCHACHOS, AND WE ARE ALL IN IT.—B. TRAVEN.… Charles BowdenBlood Orchid     ”
― Anonymous