Cathie

“I'm too young for this, I thought. Not too old, as you might expect, but too young, too inept, too uninformed. How come there weren't any grownups around? Why did everyone just assume I knew what I was doing?”
― Anne Tyler

“But when a person self-destructs, the shrapnel will tear your skin, too, if you're the one standing resolutely by their side.”
― Cheryl Diamond, Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood

“Listen son, at ma age love is a nuisance of a thing. What ye want is some easy company on a Tuesday night, a bit of help runnin’ the hoose, and if yer lucky a bit of nookie as long as ye can both lie on yer side while ye’re at it.” Mungo didn’t laugh at the joke. Jocky dropped his dout into his mug. “What ye want is an easy life. There’s nothin’ easy about love.”
― Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

“Life will unfold in its own way, in its own time; we have little say in the adventure. We only have power over what we learn from our story, what we decide to make of it. The difference between heaven and hell is simple: It’s not what happens to us, it’s not what other people do—it’s what we choose to hold on to.”
― Cheryl Diamond, Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood