Barb Ward

“Because the birdsong might be pretty,
But it's not for you they sing,
And if you think my winter is too cold,
You don't deserve my spring.”
― Erin Hanson

“Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.”
― Philip Levine

“A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
― Colm Tóibín