Roberta > Roberta's Quotes

“Then light your candles to the living. Say your prayers for the living. Leave the stones where they are, but take your heart with you. Your heart is not a stone. True love demands that, like a bride with her bouquet, you toss your fragile glass heart into the waiting crowd of living hands and trust that they will catch it.”
― Kate Braestrup, Here If You Need Me

“I was forever trying to get the perfect 1970's Michael Jackson Afro. What I had was more Buckwheat--unruly and impossible to comb, like stabbing a pitchfork into a bed of crab grass.”
― Trevor Noah

“A dog is a great thing for a kid to have. It's like a bicycle but with emotions.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood