Jennifer McCague

“Any story could be a comedy or a tragedy, depending on where you ended it. That was the magic. How the same story could be told an infinite number of ways.”
― Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

“It’s not about the time. It’s about how you spend it. Where you put your energy—”
― Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

“So much could be solved, she thinks, if we simply held hands with each other more often.”
― Ann Napolitano, Dear Edward

“What if a family isn't a tree at all? What if it's more like a forest? A collection of individuals, pooling their resources by intertwined roots, sheltering each other from wind and weather and drought... what are families other than fictions? Stories told about a particular cluster of people for a particular reason. And like all stories, families are not born, they're invented. Pieced together from love and lies and nothing else.”
― Michael Christie, Greenwood