Susan

“Believing is more than half the battle. You’ll never get there”
― Nora Roberts, The Seven Rings

“but then I realized you’re not down there in the earth, you’re somewhere else now. Beautiful and painless and free. I promise”
― Marianne Cronin, The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

“When I gardened at home, I often considered how the growth of plants resembles the gradual growth of the spirit. And seeing life make its way from seed to plant does bring one a glorious hope. All through the plant’s movement toward maturity, it is beautiful: adorable in its seedling state, full of promise as it sends its stalks up and out, then gorgeously fulfilled as it offers its yearly profit. Yet this no longer”
― Janet Benton, Lilli de Jong

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”
― Washington Irving