“It’s really a blessing, to let go of grudges, to forgive, and to move on. To allow yourself to get rid of what they called emotional hoarding.”
― Kaira Rouda, quote from Here, Home, Hope
“I didn’t know how good change could feel. I just worried about the risks, not the rewards.”
― Kaira Rouda, quote from Here, Home, Hope
“I marveled about our collective ability as women to keep all the pain hidden, just below the surface.”
― Kaira Rouda, quote from Here, Home, Hope
“I'd learned balance is internal; that there really wasn’t one set formula for how to live your life nor how to handle the wife-mother-businesswoman juggling act. Maybe it was just being tuned in to every role and knowing when one or the other needed to be the focus.”
― Kaira Rouda, quote from Here, Home, Hope
“It’s really a whole new feeling when you realize you’re in charge of your life, your thoughts, and your actions—or inaction.”
― Kaira Rouda, quote from Here, Home, Hope
“Life-change list Number Five: Don’t forget the care and feeding of friends.”
― Kaira Rouda, quote from Here, Home, Hope
“My life is up to me to define. I needed to make my own dreams come true.”
― Kaira Rouda, quote from Here, Home, Hope
“You just don’t know what’s really going on in a marriage unless it’s yours.”
― Kaira Rouda, quote from Here, Home, Hope
“helped along by doing yoga together after a huge workout”
― Kaira Rouda, quote from Here, Home, Hope
“Tell me now, Anna, he silently pleaded as she ran her finger over a rose petal. Tell me I could have a son, that we could have a son, a daughter, a baby, a future—anything.”
― Grace Burrowes, quote from The Heir
“I am hell with a knife and there is nothing I can really do about it but try and keep my mouth shut and try not to let it show.”
― Lynda Barry, quote from Cruddy
“Oh for God's sake how divine can I be? My feet hurt, I have gas and I need to pee.”
― John Scalzi, quote from The Android's Dream
“In the old days we were concerned with mobs, with thousands of men running amuck in the streets. The mob has conquered completely. When the mob has grown so vast that you cannot see it, then it is everywhere.”
― Richard Wright, quote from The Outsider
“Must I accept the barren Gift?
-learn death, and lose my Mastery?
Then let them know whose blood and breath
will take the Gift and set them free:
whose is the voice and whose the mind
to set at naught the well-sung Game-
when finned Finality arrives
and calls me by my secret Name.
Not old enough to love as yet,
but old enough to die, indeed-
-the death-fear bites my throat and heart,
fanged cousin to the Pale One's breed.
But past the fear lies life for all-
perhaps for me: and, past my dread,
past loss of Mastery and life,
the Sea shall yet give up Her dead!
Lone Power, I accept your Gift!
Freely I make death a part of me;
By my accept it is bound
into the lives of all the Sea-
yet what I do now binds to it
a gift I feel of equal worth:
I take Death with me, out of Time,
and make of it a path, a birth!
Let the teeth come! As they tear me,
they tear Your ancient hate for aye-
-so rage, proud Power! Fail again,
and see my blood teach Death to die!”
― Diane Duane, quote from Deep Wizardry
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