Jasmine

“Whoever you are and whatever you do, you still need time and space to engage in something outside of the work you do for money to make you come alive.”
― Eve Rodsky, Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do

“Doomsday scenarios are only fun when doomsday is just a hypothetical. Now I wish that they were all wrong.”
― Neal Shusterman and Others, Dry

“I wondered if maybe you and I could spend some time together," I asked, "just the two of us?"
"Steph, I just don't think that would be appropriate."
"Why?" I asked, straightening.
"I mean if you want to spend some time with me, then you'll have to accept that William will be there too," she said.

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This visit, I wished to gain back the lost relationship with my mother, but not just as someone who could help care for Mia. I craved a Mom, someone I could trust, who would accept me unconditionally despite my living in a homeless shelter. If I had a mom to talk to, maybe she could explain what was happening to me, or make it easier, and help me not see myself as a failure. It was hard, admitting that level of desperation, vying for the attention of your own mother.”
― Stephanie Land

“Rituals are, among other things, tools that help us process change. There is so much change in this universe, so many entrances and exits, and ways to mark them...each one astonishing in its own way.”
― Sasha Sagan, For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World