Nina

“beginnings are like seeds that contain within them everything that will ever happen.”
― Dani Shapiro, Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage

“can’t part with the framed diplomas of my parents and their siblings. They were the first generation in my family to go to college. How does that get tossed in a Dumpster? My uncle’s pipe, my aunt’s forty-year-old golf clubs, ceramic figurines from my grandmother’s apartment in her assisted-living facility mingle as if at”
― Dani Shapiro, Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage

“Each day there are so many people trying to persuade you to spend your time and energy on them. Think about just your mail and email. If you were to participate in every activity, sale, and service offering you get notified of, you’d have no free time. And that's just mail and email. Add on all the people who want to capture your attention for television time, online activities, places to eat, travel destinations….” She paused, “You can quickly find yourself living a life that’s just a compilation of what everyone else is doing, or what people want you to be doing. “When I got back to the beach after watching the turtle on the second day, I was filled with all these insights.”
― John P. Strelecky, The Cafe on the Edge of the World: A Story About the Meaning of Life

“his odd ability to fall feetfirst into the little pocket of someone else’s world for those few seconds.”
― Elizabeth Strout, The Burgess Boys