Abby

“I'm an undammable river of mother love. I'm a torch-brandishing one-woman mob, and I will go after anyone who casts doubt upon the rightness of my child. Even if that person is me.”
― Catherine Newman, Wreck

“What if," he had said, "you just tried to see this place for what it is, not what it could do for you?”
― Jeff Chu, Good Soil: The Education of an Accidental Farmhand

“You’ll never know anyone’s marriage but your own. And even then, you’ll only know half of it.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

“When the coroner's report comes, they learn she'd lived with a hole in the heart. That she probably never knew, but that, still, it is a miracle she lived to see eighty-eight. And they wonder again at what she gave to them. How she lived for them, and because of them. And in spite of everything.”
― Florence Knapp