Jamie Olson

“...it takes a special person to be a great foster parent, someone who realizes that the child he or she is receiving isn't perfect and probably is carrying a lot of heavy emotional baggage and bad habits. But that understanding and acceptance are essential if foster parents truly hope to bring any sense of normalcy to the child living with them in their home. The rest is all uphill from there.”
― Jimmy Wayne, Walk to Beautiful: The Power of Love and a Homeless Kid Who Found the Way

“Sometimes she thought the Creator had only made men to cause trouble for women.”
― Robert Jordan

“Where do dreams come from?

...they slink out of books, they lurk in the stacks of libraries. Out of pages turned they rise like the scent of peonies and infect the brain with their promises.”
― Marge Piercy

“...the man to love rarely coincides with the hour of loving.”
― Thomas Harris, Tess of the D’Urbervilles