Esther

“You might as well answer the door, my child,
the truth is furiously knocking.”
― Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980

“Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.”
― Philip Levine

“All is calm, all is bright.”
― Joseph Mohr

“Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day