"May the sun bring you new energy by day,
May the moon softly restore you by night,
May the rain wash away your worries,
May the breeze blow new strength into your being,
May you walk gently through the world and kn ow it's beauty all the days of your life."
-- Apache Blessing

"I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night." - Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order." Toni Morrison, Beloved

"Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering." - Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." - Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

"Dear God,' she prayed, 'let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.'" - Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn