Wendy Laurel

“assumed that she and David were bulletproof. Her kids would never fully understand her, just as she’d never fully understood her own parents and just as she, in close proximity to this girl, once a tiny baby who’d grown inside her body, would never fully understand her kids.”
― Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had

“God did not change the circumstances of your life; God changed you. She had seen it happen too many times to doubt it. She had seen so many people walk nervously down the aisle of her father’s church to accept God at the altar, then had seen them find friends, drink less, hug their children more. She had seen the transformative power of the church, and she knew there was a God, even”
― Cara Wall, The Dearly Beloved

“And there was something indescribably lovely about this, the baby who’d once jabbed with restless knees at your internal organs sitting beside you on a park bench and benevolently giving you shit, and it occurred to her that it was moments like these that made being alive feel worth it, little blips of contentment amid the mayhem and status quo.”
― Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had

“Those feelings that hound you, Nan—they are God. They are God telling you to do something, to be different in some way. Sometimes it isn’t right to pray for acceptance of the status quo. If God calls you to upend it, then you should upend it.”
― Cara Wall, The Dearly Beloved