"It's life. You don't figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride."
"I now know that things I always thought I could depend on can crash in an instant. Because of the love that I have been shown, I now know what it means to be 'beloved.' I now know that no breath is to be taken for granted."
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Source: Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”
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