The Cure for Boredom is Curiosity.

We're all connected like the scarf, one piece of yarn.
If you cut it up into little pieces, it's useless. You can't make anything out of it.
We're all responsible - everything that we touch, everything that touches us.


Connections exist long before we're aware of them.
They've always existed.
They always will.


from Joan of Arcadia Season 2

Sometimes we have to be brought to our knees in order to get in touch with who we really are and what we really want. We can't heal until we hit rock bottom.

from Joan of Arcadia - God to Joan

From The Beach House by James Patterson & Peter de Jonge

"Justice is neither a mystery or a crap shoot, but a major purchase.
Spend your money thoughtfully and secretly, you walk free.
That was the way it was in America these days. Maybe that is the way it had always been."

A cynical thought, but it puts a whole new spin on "all men are created equal" and "justice for all".

Thank goodness. I finally finished The Secret Life of Bees. I had to force myself to finish, but I'm glad because it truly was a lovely story. By the last 2 chapters I had stopped thinking of home and my mom. I don't think I'll be rereading it anytime soon though. Way too depressing for me.

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Now for the quotes:

" . . .some things don't matter that much . . . Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart - now, that matters. The whole problem with people is that they know what matters, but they don't choose it . . . The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters." (page 147)

" . . . it's something everybody wants - - for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters." (page 185)

"In life there are things you can't get over no matter how hard you try" (page 188)

"We can't think of changing our skin. Change the world that's how we gotta think." (page 216)

"Have you noticed the more you try not to think, the more elaborate your thinking episodes get?" (page 271)

"You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside." (page 288)

"I believe in the goodness of imagination." (page 300)