Rena

“Some people do crossword puzzles. I do books.”
― Betty Smith, Joy in the Morning

“The hell of it is, I know the answer. The answer is that you never, ever, rely on another person for your peace of mind. If you do, you're screwed but good. Not right away, maybe, but sooner or later. You have to -- I don't know --you have to learn to live with yourself. You have to learn to turn back your own sheets and set a table for one without feeling pathetic. You have to be strong and confident and pleased with yourself and never give the slightest impression that you can't hack it without that certain goddamn someone. You have to fake the hell out of it.”
― Armistead Maupin, More Tales of the City

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

“Even Einstein wasn’t an atheist,” he says. “He talked about God all the time. Now, he didn’t believe in a god that was concerned with human behavior, which is the church’s obsession and the reason it uses guilt and shame to enforce Christianity.”
― Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies