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'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

“Maybe that's all happiness is, an instant inhabited, a random moment in which words are unnecessary because it would take too many of them to describe it. To accept the instant in its pure, condensed form, without allowing language and its obsession with narration to dilute the intensity.
Time compressed and narration's failed attempts to
expand it.
Happiness like an image to be contemplated in
silence.”
― Claudia Piñeiro, A Little Luck