Stacie

“Good stories are anywhere you are. Your quiet, ordinary life matters, and the place you're living it matters, too.”
― Annie B. Jones, Ordinary Time: Lessons Learned While Staying Put

“Imagine, the letters one has sent out into the world, the letters received back in turn, are like the pieces of a magnificent puzzle, or, a better metaphor, if dated, the links of a long chain, and even if those links are never put back together, which they will certainly never be, even if they remain for the rest of time dispersed across the earth like the fragile blown seeds of a dying dandelion, isn’t there something wonderful in that, to think that a story of one’s life is preserved in some way, that this very letter may one day mean something, even if it is a very small thing, to someone?”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

“with age I have learned my feelings and my experience are, sadly, not unique. Terrible things happen. We make choices. Time cannot be rewound. The good that comes out of the bad can be unbearable.”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

“You get the one life. It’s awfully unfair, isn’t it?”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent