Kim

“He knew it didn’t quite have anything to do with him, but some days, often when he least expected it, he removed his sympathy from her and took it back to wrap around himself.”
― Mary Beth Keane, Ask Again, Yes

“And once out, Eleanor thought silently, you can’t put it back any more than returning a mist of perfume to a bottle once it has been sprayed.”
― Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girls of Paris

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.”
― Janet Skeslien Charles, The Paris Library

“some point over the years, our children suddenly decide that they have free rein to parent us. It starts slowly. A comment here, a suggestion there. And then they take over, fully and completely, as though you didn’t do a perfectly fine job raising them in the first place.”
― Kristy Woodson Harvey, The Wedding Veil