The pressure of being a perfectionist, the unarticulated terror of not being an automatic expert. It would pass, she knew, but that never calmed her jangling nerves or settled her stomach at the time.
“And that was all life was. Shifting the balance, every day, to make room for joy and grace in whatever circumstances you’ve got before your time runs out.”
― Drowning
― Drowning
“It was the morning star of Mars, though for a moment he had forgotten that the brilliant point of light was his own world.”
― The Sands of Mars
― The Sands of Mars
“Life is measured in birthdays. Graduations. Weddings. First steps. A first crush. A first kiss. Firsts, not lasts, are the tallies on a life’s scorecard.”
― Drowning
― Drowning
“Beauty is just like a book. Some will not bother to look beyond the cover; others will find the entire tome utterly captivating.”
― Keeper of Enchanted Rooms
― Keeper of Enchanted Rooms
“Time is luck. You grab it. You hold on tight. And you be there. You have to be there for it. It’s going, with or without you. And no one knows for how long. No one knows.”
― Drowning
― Drowning
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