Marsha

“I know why I had an affair.” Lucinda sniffled. “I think I was taking care of Caitlin for so long, then Mom got sick, and I’m not complaining, but you know, I just thought, life is so short. Anything could happen, I could get sick, I could die. I needed to do something for me, and when I met him, it was all about me, and only me.”
― Lisa Scottoline, What Happened to the Bennetts

“If we address stories as archaeological sites, and dust through their layers with meticulous care, we find at some level there is always a doorway. A dividing point between here and there, us and them, mundane and magical. It is at the moments when the doors open, when things flow between the worlds, that stories happen.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“Like anything else, friendship was an investment in time.”
― Debbie Macomber, Dear Santa

“It’s the holidays,” Anderson said carefully. “They make people crazy, give people existential crises.”
― Alina Jacobs, Good Elf Gone Wrong