Debbie Condello

“There's only one degree of freshness — the first, which makes it also the last”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”
― J.D. Salinger