Bren

“Why do teenagers always need to be reaching for someone else's goal? At my age am I allowed to do things solely because they're fun and I enjoy them?”
― Erin Baldwin, Wish You Weren't Here

“Unlike kids in family homes, kids in foster care today rely on a separate state agency, Residential Child Care Investigations, to look into reports of suspected abuse or neglect. That agency has a tendency to downgrade abuse reports without ever investigating them. During four months in 2019, the agency ruled out nearly half of the more than nine hundred abuse reports it received- with no investigation whatsoever.”
― Roxanna Asgarian, We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

“Nothing fills a child with bloodlust faster than a game of musical chairs.”
― Erin Baldwin, Wish You Weren't Here

“Love,' she began, 'isn't out there waiting to hit you like a bolt of lightning. It's not something you capture or keep or make follow your rules. It's something you create, with another person. It's an act of will, and imagination, fueled by trust and perserverance. It's a practice. And it's possible for anyone.”
― Georgia Clark, Most Wonderful