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

“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

“History, memory is by definition fiction. Once an event is no longer present, but remembered, it is narrative. And we can choose the narratives we tell—about our own lives, our own stories, our own relationships. We can choose the chapters we give meaning.”
― Rebecca Serle, One Italian Summer

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