Clare Lanphear

“We’re as common as rain.” And she was right: to each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread, we were just a family. In a family, even exaggerations make perfect sense; they are always logical exaggerations, nothing more.”
― John Irving

“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.”
― John Irving, Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn