Heather Joyce

“A few hours later (I think, anyway) there are six other empty beer mugs joining the first one on the table. I watch them look back at me, my eyes half open. I think the one on the far right is judging me.”
― C.H. Wood, Summer Sessions

“She was still deeply anguished by the loss of her father, but the anvil of grief was finally beginning to lift.”
― T.L. Haddix, Firefly Hollow

“They’d had a rocky start, but what they’d built had well been worth the fight.”
― T.L. Haddix, Cricket Cove

“It’s fine to be able to stand on your own, admirable, but I think you also need to prove to yourself that it’s okay if you don’t have to. That it’s okay to choose to not be alone. To choose to let someone support you, emotionally and otherwise.”
― T.L. Haddix, Butterfly Lane