"All that is gold does not glitter,

"All that is gold does not glitter,

Not all those who wander are lost;

The old that is strong does not wither,

Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,

A light from the shadows shall spring;

Renewed shall be blade that was broken,

The crownless again shall be king."

— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

Quote E.B. WHITE.....................

"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."

— E.B. White

Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs..........

"Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger or more lasting than twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks. Or they are words on the air, composed of sounds and ideas-abstract, invisible, gone once they've been spoken-and what could be more frail than that? But some stories, small, simple ones about setting out on adventures or people doing wonders, tales of miracles and monsters, have outlasted all the people who told them, and some of them have outlasted the lands in which they were created."

— Neil Gaiman (Fragile Things)

Tom Robbins- still life with woodpecker-- my favorite Tom Robbins book

"Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words "make" and "stay" become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free."

— Tom Robbins (Still Life with Woodpecker)

 

My favorite- caitie the redheaded cowgirl

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."— Elbert Hubbard

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."— Elbert Hubbard
Ever so true-- there are those special people, girlfriends, who love you no matter what.... the ones you can call at three a.m., obsess about the smallest detail get into trouble with, get out of trouble with, make you cry, the ones you can call when the goat gets in the house and the ones that make you laugh until you pee your pants, the ones where you can years without talking and pick up at the same spot, the ones you call when the shite hits the fan and those you just want to have a giggle with, those are the friends that count.  The ones who you call when the dog is greeting the UPS man - with your underwear in their mouth, the ones who help celebrate your 29th birthday ; for the 7th time- the ones that hold the secrets that you don't even know about, the ones that make the memories, the ones that know your soul. Hold on to them. -- because they are rare and precious and love you just the way you are.
 smooches caitie