Tonya

“If you can't see the bright side, why ya just need to polish the dull one.”
― Shelley Shepard Gray, Winter's Awakening

“Listen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you've ever taken for granted, every plan or possibility you've ever hatched, every conceit or endeavor you've ever concocted, can be stripped from you in an instant. Sooner or later, it will happen. So prepare yourself. Be ready not to be ready. Be ready to be brought to your knees and beaten to dust. Because no stable foundation, no act of will, no force of cautious habit will save you from this fact: nothing is indestructible.”
― Jonathan Evison, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving

“He released her with obvious reluctance and shoved open his door, then came around to open her door. His chivalry brought an even broader smile. "Bet this doesn't last long", she teased. He took her hand. "You keep waiting for me to open it, and I will keep coming around.”
― Colleen Coble, Lonestar Homecoming

“Home is the place I can live with myself, without hating myself.”
― Peggy Lampman, Simmer and Smoke: A Southern Tale of Grit and Spice