“From an early age, books were my constant companions and my local library, a place I could find a new friend on every shelf.”
"[We] tried and tried and tried and tried and tried to get pregnant, but it just was not [meant] to be the conventional way. Meeting your children [through surrogacy] rather than giving birth to them, it’s suspended animation. The gestational experience is gone. It’s as if everything else disappears for a moment and the world goes silent."
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Adaptation
"One of the many gifts that books give readers is a connection to each other. When we share an affection for a writer, an author or a story, we also have a better understanding of people unlike ourselves. Books cultivate empathy."
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Empathy
"As we discover God, sometimes unexpected answers to prayers take us from the street, bring us to community, chase darkness from our souls, and guide us to find spiritual refuge and belonging in the goodness of His covenants and abiding love."
Connection to Earth
"We are all like fireworks: we climb, we shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even when that time comes, let’s not disappear like a firework and continue to shine forever."
- Hitsugaya Toshiro
Connection to Earth
"Alone, you feel nothing but insecurity; that’s why we form guilds, that’s why we have friends. We walk together in order to live a strong life."
- Makarov Dreyar
Connection to Earth
"Even if we forget the faces of our friends, We will never forget the bonds that were carved into our souls."
- Otonashi Yuzuru
Connection to Earth
"No single thing is perfect by itself. That’s why we’re born to attract other things to make up for what we lack. I think we start walking in the right direction only after we start getting our counterparts besides us."
- Itachi Uchiha
Connection to Earth