Twelve

"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character…Would you slow down? Or speed up?"

--Chuck Palahniuk




"There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live. The sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope."

Alexander Dumas

"And though she be but little, she is fierce"

--William Shakespeare

"Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me."

--Fred Rogers




You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children."
--Pablo Picasso




"There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me."
--Jonathan Safran Foer
(Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)




“Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.”

— William Shakespeare

"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."

--Mark Twain

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

--Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over."

--Gloria Naylor

"We read to know that we are not alone."

--C.S. Lewis



"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. ‘Pooh?’ he whispered.

‘Yes, Piglet?’
‘Nothing,’ said Piglet, taking Pooh’s hand. ‘I just wanted to be sure of you.’"

--A.A. Milne