Jareen Meinzen Derr Quotes & Sayings

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don't always ask. — Richard L. Evans

I knew that time would now pass for me differently than it would for him - that I, like everyone in that room, would go on accumulating loves and losses while he would not. And for me, that was the final and truly unbearable tragedy: Like all the innumerable dead, he'd once and for all been demoted from haunted to haunter. — John Green

Often is the worst of you that makes the best of you — Thabiso Monkoe

I may be fucked up beyond repair, but I can still see the truth. You deserve so much ... you deserve a loving heart and a caring hand, understanding and kind words to erase the false ones. — K.I. Lynn

I wanted to go to regular high school - it looked like a lot of fun. — Tommy Rettig

Yousef gave up his kingdom to be with her, and Madeleine, well her father disowned her, too," Sophia continued. "But they didn't care. They went to America together and lived happily ever after. Until Hitler invaded Poland and started World War Two. Madeleine lost her husband and both of her sons in the war." She sighed dramatically. "I used to wonder, what if, when she stood in this room, at the very moment that she fell in love with Prince Yousef, what if she had the power to know what was to come? All that heartache and loss ... would she have taken that same path anyway? — Suzanne Brockmann

It's never what people do that makes us angry; it's what we tell ourselves about what they did. — Marshall B. Rosenberg