Jessica

“You don't grow up, she reasoned now, until you begin to evaluate yourself, to recognize your good traits and acknowledge that you have a few faults.”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and Joe

“The older I get the more mixed up life seems. When you're little, it's all so plain. It's all laid out like a game ready to play. You think you know exactly how it's going to go. But things happen...”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and Joe

“What we work out in our journals we don’t take out on family and friends.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“We have to build our lives out of what materials we have. It's as though we were given a heap of blocks and told to build a house.”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, Emily of Deep Valley