Paula

“If I want a different, more positive, more attentive, more passionate kind of love, then I have to be brave enough to stand up for myself and ask for it. Demand it, even. And not settle for anything less than what I want and need for myself. But, she realised, I also have to be open to receiving love in my body as it is right now. Not ‘one day’, when I finally decide that I’m worthy of it. I have to go after what I want right now, instead of just hoping that it will happen to me eventually. And if I get hurt in the process, then at least I can say that it wasn’t because I didn’t try. I have to choose, and then fight for, my own happiness.”
― M J Duff, Heart of Doolin: Emerald Isle Trilogy - Book 1

“That’s a horrible thought.” “Is it, though? I like to think of life as a journey of learning. We’re not supposed to be perfect, and we can’t be, even if we try our hardest. The equivalent of being human is being flawed, right?”
― Jacob Chance, Fooling the Forward

“I think my best advice is something I got from my auntie. She said that teenagers are basically clinically insane. Their brains are on a constant up and down of hormones and chemicals and they can’t keep up. So try not to take anything they say or do personally and just keep them alive. And try to get a vegetable in them every once in a while.”
― Heidi Hutchinson, Key Change

“For Sylvia’s greatest bequest was the reminder that true friends are the most precious gift, and that even in the darkest of times love illuminates the way home.”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, Round Robin: An Elm Creek Quilts Book