Gretchen

“Oliver, did you pack underwear?” “Mama!” Oliver exclaimed, flushing. “Well, did you?” “No,” he admitted.”
― Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers on the Road: A Harlem family's cross-country birthday surprise for Papa hits a detour when Laney fears a college visit means change

“Knowing a person’s story doesn’t mean you have the right to tell it. And sometimes the right to hear it has to be earned.”
― Bianca Marais, The Witches of Moonshyne Manor

“By the power of Phil Collins, I rebuke you!” she said. “By the power of Phil Collins, who knows that you coming back to me is against all odds, in his name I command you to leave this servant of Genesis alone...
By the power of The Thorn Birds - she cried - by the sacred strength of My Sweet Audrina and Forever...
By the power of lost retainers and Jamaica and bad cornrows and fireflies and Madonna, by all these things I rebuke you”
― Grady Hendrix

“You can consciously decide to be happy, loving, fulfilled, generous, peaceful, contented, spiritual, joyous, calm, festive, and emotionally connected to the important people in your life for the holidays this year. Or you can, unconsciously, choose to be a wreck.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy