Leann Anderson

“You should be glad you’re nervous,” he told me finally. I remember laughing bitterly, sure he was joking. “It’s true.” He was always so gentle. “Nervousness means there’s a fear to be faced ahead, Diago. The man who is never nervous, never does anything hard. The man who is never nervous, never grows.”
― James Islington, The Will of the Many

“There is so much to do in a family of this size, so much to see to, so many people needing so many different things. How easy is it, Agnes thinks, as she lifts the plates, to miss the pain and anguish of one person, if that person keeps quiet, if he keeps it all in, like a bottle stoppered too tightly, the pressure inside building and building, until—what?”
― Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet

“IT HAD ONLY BEEN TWO days, but Janine Blitstein was already tired of Bleak Creek. Things that had seemed charming and quaint during her childhood summertime visits now seemed, at best, out of touch and, at worst, annoyingly backward. It completely boggled her mind that her mother had grown up here. Then again, her mom had left town as soon as she could, so in that way it made perfect sense.”
― Rhett McLaughlin, The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek