Genny

“Because only when you risk, can you find the reward, just as my father had taught me. One can stay home and avoid the pirates, or get on the ocean and experience life.”
― Connie Lapallo, The Sun Is But A Morning Star

“A child became her mother's world, filling her days and simultaneously filling her heart.”
― Madeline Martin

“Few people lived, as she did, with the constant feeling of having been born at the wrong time and in the wrong place. And fewer still realized, as she did, that all that was worth admiring, all that was beautiful and sublime, seemed to be vanishing with hardly a trace.”
― Natalia Sanmartín Fenollera, The Awakening of Miss Prim: A Novel

“You have to laugh, Joan. If you don't find things to laugh about, you'll find nothing to make you happy. It's cold and all but hopeless, sure. No one can deny that. But one day, the sun will shine again, and the hunger and pain will be over as it was before. We don't know how we'll get through, but we will somehow.”
― Connie Lapallo, The Sun Is But A Morning Star