Cindy

“he draws in a breath—“well, grief is a funny thing, isn’t it? I’ll be perfectly fine, going on about my day, and then I’ll call for you in the other room.” Oh, Marty. “When you don’t answer, it’s like I have to relive it all over again. I’m pretty sure I’ll never get used to the fact that you’re gone.”
― Courtney Walsh, The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley

“The base of the sky was turning orange and pale pink. I figure that was the sun’s way of yawning and stretching before it puts its hands on the hills and pushes on up into the sky.”
― Natalie Lloyd, A Snicker of Magic

“There are two passions which have a powerful influence in the affairs of men. These are ambition and avarice; the love of power and the love of money. Separately, each of these has great force in prompting men to action; but, when united in view of the same object, they have in many minds the most violent effects . . . And of what kind are the men that will strive for this profitable preeminence, through all the bustle of cabal, the heat of contention, the infinite mutual abuse of parties, tearing to pieces the best of characters? It will not be the wise and moderate, the lovers of peace and good order, the men fittest for the trust. It will be the bold and the violent, the men of strong passions and indefatigable activity in their selfish pursuits.”
― Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

“We don’t always marry someone we can live with. We marry someone we can’t live without.”
― Karen White, The Attic on Queen Street