“There is 'a time to be born' - and born again, free of accumulated, encrusted sores of fears and prejudices, old hates, of cancerous wounds, old prides. And there is a time to die - a time for the blue, unburied child of our young years to be decently interred - and to get on with the living.” YearsChildrenYoungHateDiesBornPridePrejudiceBlueWoundsAdulthoodBorn Again Author:Josephine Winslow Johnson
“Old people who live too long come to resemble turtles. As though time turned in a curve, and down they go to the reptiles again. Not the little wet naked frog they were born. But the tortoise. Cold eyes, sagging circles of skin, the nose becomes beak. The shell of sleep.” PeopleLittlesLongEyeAgeBornSleepColdSkinsCirclesNakedOld AgeNosesWetShellsCurvesOld PeopleFrogsTurtlesReptilesTortoisesBeaksSaggingCold Eyes Book:The Inland Island Source: The Inland Island
“I cannot believe this is the end. Nor can I believe that death is more than the blindness of those living. And if this is only the consolation of a heart in its necessity, or that easy faith born of despair, it does not matter, since it gives us courage somehow to face the mornings. Which is as much as the heart can ask at times.” IfsGivingBelieveHeartDoeEndsMatterFacesAsksI BelieveEasyBornMorningDespairBlindnessConsolation Author:Josephine Winslow Johnson