I loved him from the depths, but it wouldn’t matter (life’s tragedy). It mattered only that he chose himself in that way...it matters always that I choose me.
Darkness
Chapter 25
When you decide not to respond to injustice with injustice and bear the betrayal instead, you transmute the suffering. It's going to feel like a death, but it's going to be a resurrection.
Chapter 10
"Reader, do you know what 'perfidy' means? I have a feeling you do, based on the little scene that has just unfolded here. But you should look up the word in your dictionary, just to be sure," The Tale of Despereaux by, Kate DiCamillo (I don't know that any book has inspired me more).
Chapter 8
There was always this mysterious hint of something spiritual around us, following us. It was more of an inner knowing than anything else, mixed with some eerie synchronicities that would scare the shit out of you if you didn't know what was happening.