Barbara

“Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

“it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.”
― Wallace Stegner

“In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines
Lived twelve little girls in two straight lines
In two straight lines they broke their bread
And brushed their teeth and went to bed.
They left the house at half past nine
In two straight lines in rain or shine-
The smallest one was Madeline.”
― Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline

“This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven.”
― Rick Bragg