Jen

“Then let us be among those who hope that the future will be less cruel than the past.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Marriage of Opposites

“I just do the best I can to face what life brings. That’s the secret, you know. That’s the way you change your fate.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Rules of Magic

“My father had told me that no matter how comfortable we might feel, we must live like fish, unattached to any land. Wherever there was water, we would survive. Some fish could stay in the mud for months, even years, and when at last there was a high flooding tide, they would swim away, a dark flash, remembered only by their own kind. So perhaps the stories they told of our people were true: no net could hold us.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Marriage of Opposites

“(When your mom is gone, the thing no one ever tells you is that the little compass needle inside keeps spinning around and around, never finding north.)”
― Megan Abbott, Give Me Your Hand