Alyssa

“I am always last to see the beauty I inhabit.”
― Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

“It is not easy to make a friend let alone lose one.”
― Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

“The act of mothering is not limited to the bearing of children.”
― Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River

“The joy of having sons is that they worship their mothers. Until one day, suddenly, they don’t. I am not like you, he realizes. We are different. Then, that boy—once small and sweet—begins the long, hard process of separation, until at last he rips the seam. But the holes where mother and son were once knit together remain.”
― Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River