Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there’s the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn’t do it the way somebody told you to do it (Alice Walker)
When we are down there, if we are parted, come and find me again,” said Keedra (Philip Dodd, Angel War)
I do listen. I just wait for the words to stop and your eyes to speak (Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons)
Either you will be you or you will not be at all (Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun)
Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it’s good to capture people when they are themselves (Patrick Demarchelier)
To date a girl for her look is like eating a bird for it song – Michael Ikechukwu john
An attitude is much deeper than just our emotions or the thoughts we think. It’s a decision we make based on our core beliefs and values (Toni Sorenson, Aligned By Christ)
I want to grow old without facelifts… I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I’ve made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you (Marilyn Monroe)
Thandi looks at the rag dolls and the coasters and key chains and handcrafted jewelry that Delores delicately places inside the basket. How would visitors know the real stories behind the faces of the wooden masks they’d buy to have on walls – the rag dolls they’d use to decorate unused furniture in their houses
I’m not perfect. Remember that, and try to forgive me when I fail you (Elizabeth Lowell, Sweet Wind, Wild Wind)