"Moments before sleep are when she feels most alive, leaping across fragments of the day, bringing each moment into the bed with her like a child with schoolbooks and pencils. The day seems to have no order until these times, which are like a ledger for her, her body full of stories and situations."

-- Michael Ondaatje

#Children Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Order Quotes

“I could never wear another uniform. I will forever be a Yankee.”
“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
“Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.”
“Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.”
“I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.”
“You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life.”
“You all looked so happy together in the photograph. You looked like the perfect family. Is there such a thing anymore because if there is, my happy little unit was definitely not in the queue when they were handing out the titles.”
“I went camping in the Maasai Mara and we moved site every night. I had no idea how spectacular it would be, how removed from ordinary life, or how many animals we would see.”

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