Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free... and look at cats. Author of Chloe Boston, Butterscotch Jones and Miss Henry mysteries, artist and animal lover. Not a fan of DM. No Crypto.
Melanie Jackson
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"The best time to make friends is
before you need them." ~ Ethel Barrymore
Melanie Jackson
"I've been as bad an influence on American literature
as anyone I can think of." -Dashiell Hammett
"Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice, like a beautiful swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity." ~ Peggy Noonan
Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -James Joyce
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.
-Mark Twain
"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading." ~ Happy birthday, William Styron
"Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play." ~ Mike Singletary
When the cat reaches up
one needled paw to drag down a book
from your desk, then another,
that’s not love—that’s dominance.
-Rebecca Hazelton
Everything that is tearing us down today will become a memory, and this memory will be shared as an anecdote or a story or a warning. This is why we show up for others and tell our tales and listen to others. The great congregation meets daily, and you are someone’s angel today.
― Tennessee Williams
"Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,
Are a substantial world, both pure and good:
Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,
Our pastime and our happiness will grow."
-William Wordsworth
