Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Carrie is the founder of Quote Heaven. She spent her life in the performing arts world, training under the Royal Academy of Dancing and performing principal and soloist roles in major productions and ballets. Carrie has run a performing arts school, as well as a non-profit, with professional staff and guest artists from all over the U.S. and world. Carrie founded and directed The Outreach Program for at-risk, homeless children and “No Means No”, a bilingual arts program created to prevent sexual assault. When not training in classical ballet, Carrie studied at the University of Nevada, Reno, with a double major in Psychology and Criminal Justice and a minor in Dance. She is also the founder of The Common Sense Kitchen (CSK) and is the author of CSK’s Paleo Everyday and Paleo Holidays cookbooks for beginners and busy people. She has been writing in journals and collecting quotes since the age of five 

Marcie was born in Kansas. Diagnosed with dyslexia at a very young age, she worked tirelessly to overcome it, which transformed her into a voracious reader. Her home was filled with shelves overflowing with books. One of her first jobs was working at Barnes and Noble, and her dream retirement job was to open a cozy seaside book shop. Marcie's career started as a travel agent for Reno Air which took her across the country and 2 oceans, to Canada, Hong Kong, and Czechoslovakia. Her true calling was in helping others, so she began her nursing studies at Simmons College in Boston, and forensic nursing at the University of Colorado. She graduated Orvis School of Nursing in 2006 and became licensed in 9 states. She worked at the Reno Veterans’ hospital, the Hemophilia Treatment Center in Las Vegas, and as a psychiatric nurse at Senior Bridges Behavioral Health. Marcie worked for Kindred Hospice and later worked as a triage nurse for Gentiva Hospice. Her work in this field provided comfort and dignity to those in their final days, touching the lives of patients and families across the western United States. 

Marcie passed away on Christmas Eve of 2024 after a 22-month battle with LMS, a rare form of cancer. She was only 53 years old. Marcie leaves behind a legacy of compassion, resilience, and an insatiable curiosity about the world and the stories of everyone in it. Marcie was an avid collector of quotes.

"In the end, we'll all become stories." 

Margaret Atwood