Ellen Johnson

“I would like never to travel again. I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent---and working at a pace so slow---that I would be able to hear myself living.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things

“I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“Writing isn’t my life…it’s a lovely part of my life... but it’s not my life. My life is family, friends, fishing, food…things like reading and painting and all the rest of it, and you can’t really prioritize when you’re involved with family or you’re involved in fishing, you can’t say, ‘Oh, I really should be writing.”
― Keri Hulme

“Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope; in their opinion, dirt could wait.”
― Alice Hoffman, Local Girls