JoAnna

“Go slower—you’ll go further. Beautiful things aren’t rushed. A garden, a book, a work of art… they grow with time, care, and heart.”
― Angelika Regossi

“When you become a mother, you engender life, endless possibilities. Mothering is creative in a very literal sense—it is cultivating all that potential, bringing a small person into consciousness.”
― Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

“He let his mind go, following its apparently new logic: it came to a matter of self-control, something laughed at by himself and virtually all the people he knew in the universities. He personally associated it with being a Boy Scout. In something not unlike terror, he saw how the great truths had been made banal for the popular taste; how the oversimplifying of them was a danger to himself and others dedicated to the complex and subtle. The terror became real in him as he saw for a second time, with a clarity equivalent to physical sight, how much more difficult it was for an intelligent person to be saved.”
― Harry Sylvester, Dayspring

“It was such a nice feeling to know that someone was looking after you... that someone wanted you... that you were important to someone.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Ingleside