Deirdre Hackeling

“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Laughter is the language of the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda

“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander