“Whoever You Are, And Whatever Helps, I Hope Today Is A Day You Are Finding The Softest Way Through.”

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Trapeze: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1947-1955

But the problem is, once you love someone, you can’t have it all anymore. Love comes with sacrifice. That’s how it works.

— Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life (Berkley, April 22, 2025)

I hope the strong women out there aren’t quiet and they don’t go away, because when people attack you for speaking, the best way to drive them nuts is to smile and carry on speaking - louder, more wisely, more intensely, more articulately than ever.

Neil Gaiman

Maggie Smith, “Wild”, Goldenrod

I told the voice inside my head, that I could only become a better woman if she spoke kinder to me.

Yakari Gabriel

11 Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.

‭‭-Job‬ ‭41‬:‭11‬ ‭ESV

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Mount Rainier National Park by Peter Thomas