Sheryll Barcelon

“I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

“It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date.
It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit.
It just has to be.”
― David Levithan

“A woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book.”
― Caroline Mytinger, Headhunting in the Solomon Islands: Around the Coral Sea

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare