Deeann McQueen

“All at once she wanted, more than anything, to talk to her mother.
It was funny how, even once you had children, you never stopped needing your mother. If anything, they made you need her more.”
― Francesca Hornak, Seven Days of Us

“I want to be younger. I want someone to give me back a piece of the twenty years I've lost. But that's not possible. There's no lost and found where I can go to claim those missing years. All I can do now is try not to waste a single moment from now on. I can't let any more time slip away, I have to grab it and hold onto it.”
― Claudia Piñeiro, A Little Luck

“I'm not generally in a hurry. I lost my hurry a long time ago. Why rush? Where do I need to get so fast? Just the opposite, my everyday life centres around small actions aimed at helping pass the time, making it disappear into a series of unimportant motions completed without the slightest hint of urgency.”
― Claudia Piñeiro, A Little Luck

“Zoey understood that mothering was in the details you never saw. And the lack of it was the things you always noticed.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Other Birds