Cami Steinford

“She understands suddenly that the stuff that fills her up is not the love or attention she might get from other people; it is the love she herself has for other people. We are, Portia decides, the people we love”
― Jessica Anya Blau, Drinking Closer to Home

“... I hadn't understood that people you loved could do things you didn't love. And, still, you could keep loving them.”
― Jessica Anya Blau, Mary Jane

“In the Cone family, there was no such thing as containment. Feelings were splattered around the household with the intensity of a spraying fire house. I was terrified of what I might witness or hear tonight. But along with that terror, my fondness for the Cones only grew. To feel something was to feel alive. And to feel alive was starting to feel like love.”
― Jessica Anya Blau, Mary Jane

“Part of being alive is figuring out the balance between what you want, what you need, and what you have with what you don't want, don't need and don't have.”
― Jessica Anya Blau, Mary Jane