Joyce Faure

“Don't Just

Don't just learn, experience.
Don't just read, absorb.
Don't just change, transform.
Don't just relate, advocate.
Don't just promise, prove.
Don't just criticize, encourage.
Don't just think, ponder.
Don't just take, give.
Don't just see, feel.
Don’t just dream, do.
Don't just hear, listen.
Don't just talk, act.
Don't just tell, show.
Don't just exist, live.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“He looked like an actor who'd star in some movie about a doomed love affair between an heiress and a park ranger. I thought it was probably inappropriate to fling myself against him and bury my nose in his chest.”
― Sue Grafton, I is for Innocent

“She was forty before she realized that when she asked a man what he was thinking and he said, “Nothing,” he wasn’t lying.”
― Nevada Barr, What Rose Forgot

“A mother’s heart breaks a million ways in her lifetime.”
― Ashley Audrain, The Push