Miki MacKennedy

“Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles

“Who knows how fast a second-guess can travel? Who has ever measured the exact speed of regret?”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles

“Because I needed to love my mother and father in all their flawed, outrageous humanity, I could not afford to address them directly about the felonies committed against all of us. I could not hold them accountable or indict them for crimes they could not help. They, too, had a history—one that I remembered with both tenderness and pain, one that made me forgive their transgressions against their own children. In families there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

“Kinsella takes my hand in his. As soon as he takes it, I realise my father has never once held my hand, and some part of me wants Kinsella to let me go so I won’t have to feel this.”
― Claire Keegan, Foster