Lynn Jarrett

“I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runway sun, I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love. If you want me again look for me under your boot soles. You will hardly know who I am or what I mean. Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you”
― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

“The secret is treating family like guests and guests like family.”
― Isabel Vincent, Dinner With Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship

“Her father told her once that all animals were creatures of habit and so, too, were they. The difference was she could choose to change her habits. Animals changed when they were afraid. Change before feat has had a chance to overcome you, he said, or after you have overcome it and like a storm it has moved on.”
― Andrew Krivak, The Bear

“There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. —ANAÏS NIN”
― Abbi Waxman, The Garden of Small Beginnings