top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I'm sure my parents must be proud. Or horrified. Or are bitterly arguing about whether they're proud or horrified, and have already hired lawyers to resolve the dispute. -Hayden Upchurch."
Standard
Customized
More
"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Blessed is the womb that born you."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Children are angels."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Wrapped in a mother's love is the most beautiful and safest place on earth for a child."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching-they are your family. And they were my heroes."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A new baby is a bundle of hope, a smiling imagination, and a dancing dreams."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Dreams can twist your emotions like no reality can."
Emotion
"Hayden shouts, "To the new Teen Uprising!"
Youth
"Elasticity is a fundamental principle of perception."
Perception
"They all think medicine should be magic, and they become mad at me when it's not."
Health
"How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows?""They do it all the time," says Hayden. "That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong."
Law
"I begin to wonder if David was like me. Seeing monsters everywhere and realizing there aren't enough slingshots in the world to get rid of them."
Fear
"I went home and tried to sleep, but couldn't, so I stared up at the moon, watching how it's trailing edge faded into darkness, so close to being full, but not quite there. A pregnant moon, Grandma called it. Full almost to bursting, and ready to give birth to something unthinkable."
Nature
"And you know the darkness beyond despair, just as intimately as you know the soaring heights. Because in this and all universes, there is balance. You can't have the one without facing the other. And sometimes you think you can take it because the joy is worth the despair, and sometimes you know you can't take it and how did you ever think you could? And there is the dance; strength and weakness, confidence and desolation."
Philosophy
"And I think, if thoughts are worth a penny, how much less promises must be worth. Especially the ones you're likely to break."
Philosophy
"The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible."
Wonder
bottom of page