Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.

Light attracts light. But sometimes your light attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites. Protect your space and energy

Later that night, I held an atlas on my lap, ran my fingers across the whole world, and whispered, ‘where does it hurt?’ It answered, everywhere, everywhere, everywhere.

Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you're wearing, who you're around, what you're doing. Recreate and repeat.

My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.

It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.

Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.

I’m overwhelmed. My biggest downfall is my brightest blessing, I feel too much, all the time. Ya Allah, if it’ll keep my heart soft, break my heart every day.

Don't assume, ask. Be kind. Tell the truth. Don't say anything you can't stand behind fully. Have integrity. Tell people how you feel.

Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen of love, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. Sometimes, the men, they come with keys, and sometimes the men, they come with hammers.

You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.

Linda Heavner Gerald received a silver medal for Fiction from FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association)

As believers, our reaction to crisis reveals our heart toward God.

In the grave, there is neither learning nor working. Learn while you can, work while you can.

Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

Oh how quickly the world's glory passes away.

My father-in-law is so sensitive. Sometimes I think he displays too much love for my children.

Technology sounds quick and easy, but it ends up taking up too much of your time.

I serve society by rocking!

My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.