Berry Dapas

“From her perch on the crescent of the harvest moon, the Holy Lady looked down and smiled at her imperfect children. The angels attending her that night felt little twinges of longing to be in human form, if for only a few minutes. They wanted to rock, they wanted to roll, they wanted to feel the peculiarly human feeling of having a perfect night in an imperfect world.”
― Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

“I am left in the hottest hell of unending slavery. O God, save me! God, deliver me! Let me be free! Is there any God? Why am I a slave? I will run away. I will not stand it. Get caught, or get clear, I'll try it. I had as well die with ague as the fever, I have only one life to lose. I had as well be killed running as die standing. Only think of it; one hundred miles straight north, and I am free! Try it? Yes! God helping me, I will. It cannot be that I shall live and die a slave.”
― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“It's not intentions that matter. It's actions. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.”
― Kristin Hannah

“That's life! Sometimes you're on the horse's back, and sometimes it's the horse that's on your back.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Embroideries