Laurel White

“He had read in it: "Only the unwise think that what has changed is dead." He had asked the teacher what it meant, and the teacher had said that if a flower blooms once, it goes on blooming somewhere forever. It blooms on for whoever has seen it blooming.”
― William H. Armstrong, Sounder

“You don’t stop loving a person when they’re hurt. You get stronger so they can lean on you.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“I believe the most important thing for humankind is its own creativity. I further believe that, in order to be able to exercise this creativity, people need to be free.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama

“The broken illuminate the unbroken.”
― Luke Dittrich, Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets