Megan

“Hope is tricky, slippery; it’s a door opening and then slamming in your face. The”
― Gretta Mulrooney, Out of the Blue

“But if only I could go back, just for a little while. There was something so different about childhood. Something wonderful and magical that just went from me as I got older. Why couldn’t I hold onto it? Why had I allowed the world to take it from me? Suddenly I hated the world, real life. Hated the way it took our childhood away from us. I hated that we had to become something other than children, that we had to give up our childness — that was the price we had to pay for becoming an adult. And once we’d paid the price, there wasn’t ever any going back. Not really. We could act in childish ways, we could revisit childhood places. But we never got back the childhood itself. My”
― Thomas Wymark, Inheritance

“If there’s one thing we dogs know, it’s always trust your gut. Always. Objective analysis is highly overrated. Reasoning is better left to lawyers and scientists. And sometimes Border Collies, but don’t get me started on that.”
― N. Gemini Sasson, Say That Again

“When Caleb said it didn’t matter who you had been or what you had done he meant it; and you knew he meant it. That type of acceptance could transform a person. But it was also important to be able to tell your painful stories and know that someone else really heard you – that someone stepped onto the path of darkness and walked alongside of you. It mattered that another person wanted to know who you had been and what had happened to you.”
― Francis Guenette, Disappearing in Plain Sight