Runde Ford Quotes & Sayings

War changes everything. The world is never the same after a war. Any war. There are holes ... missing parts ... The best you can do is pick up the pieces that are left and start to build again. It'll never be the way it was before.
Vernon Kraft from The Ragtime Coven (coming later this year!) — Bruce Jenvey

If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out of the world, at last, naked and forlorn, to everlasting poverty and contempt. — Jonathan Edwards

Many are those who can argue; few are those who can converse — Amos Bronson Alcott

Don't think or judge, just listen. — Sarah Dessen

Mental illness

People assume you aren't sick
unless they see the sickness on your skin
like scars forming a map of all the ways you're hurting.

My heart is a prison of Have you tried?s
Have you tried exercising? Have you tried eating better?
Have you tried not being sad, not being sick?
Have you tried being more like me?
Have you tried shutting up?

Yes, I have tried. Yes, I am still trying,
and yes, I am still sick.

Sometimes monsters are invisible, and
sometimes demons attack you from the inside.
Just because you cannot see the claws and the teeth
does not mean they aren't ripping through me.
Pain does not need to be seen to be felt.

Telling me there is no problem
won't solve the problem.

This is not how miracles are born.
This is not how sickness works. — Emm Roy

I am nothing. I feel like nothing. I want my life to matter. What if one day I'm gone and nobody ever knew I existed? — Vikki Wakefield

Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having. — William Penn

On one end there was who you were before you went underground, and on the other end a new person steps out into the light. — Colson Whitehead