Jacky

“She understands, too, the loneliness of parenting, which is the loneliness of memory—to know that she connects a future unknowable to her parents with a past unknowable to her child.”
― Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists

“She’d tell herself that what she really wanted was not to live forever, but to stop worrying.”
― Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists

“Most adults claim not to believe in magic, but Klara knows better. Why else would anyone play at permanence--fall in love, have children, buy a house--in the face of all evidence there's no such thing?”
― Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists

“Education is teaching children to find pleasure in the right things.”
― Mary Pipher, Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age