Allison

“It’s not that I’m unaware of the suffering and the soon-to-be-more suffering in the world, it’s that I know the suffering exists beside wet grass and a bright blue sky recently scrubbed by rain. The beauty and the suffering are equally true.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

“Because you know what’s even better than happy endings?” “What?” “Happy middles.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

“All life. You are never finish, never done. Never become, always becoming. You know? Life is change so is always okay you are not there yet. Is like this for you and Poppy and everyone. The people who do not understand are change. The people who afraid are change. There is no before and no after because change is what is life. You live in change, in in between.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

“Grandpa would sit in his corduroy armchair, I’d settle into a beanbag at his feet, and together we’d escape to different worlds in the pages of our books. And once in a while, he’d pat me on the head, as if to reassure me he was still there.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover