Grief is the price we pay for love. ~~ Queen Elizabeth II

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens. ~~ Anne McCaffrey, author of The Dragonriders of Pern

Life is pleasant, death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome. ~~ Isaac Asimov

Humans belong to the group of conscious beings that are carbon-based, solar-system dependent, limited in knowledge, prone to error, and mortal. It is strangely comforting to be granted tacit permission to make mistakes just because we are human. ~~ Sue Black, author of All That Remains and Written in Bone

We delight in the beauty of a butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. ~~ Maya Angelou