“Sometimes you don't realize you are lonely until a kind stranger makes you feel like a friend for fifteen minutes and you go away feeling loved. Loneliness is not always the absence of human interaction. More often, it is the absence of human kindness.” KindnessLoneliness Book:Sketches of a Small Life Source: Sketches of a Small Life
“I made new friends and learned new things and began to grow used to the ebb and flow of life, of old things dying and new things being born, of endings and beginnings.” Life LessonsGrowing Up Book:Sketches of a Small Life Source: Sketches of a Small Life
“Circumstances are engineered to teach you in ways that never require a compromise of identity. Because I did not try to be someone I was not, the circumstances I was placed in shaped me in ways that have only been helpful.” IdentitySelf Acceptance Book:Sketches of a Small Life Source: Sketches of a Small Life