Tiffany Landers

“Perhaps your friendship with your mother is just shifting to something more… adult.” That felt like a huge responsibility. If I forgave my mother for hiding the truth from me, then I had to totally own my part in our relationship. I couldn’t play the little girl anymore. I couldn’t hide behind her authority and rules and then get mad when they didn’t fit. I’d have to make my own choices and take charge of my own well-being. It’s one thing to say ‘I’m old enough to make my own rules’ and it’s a totally different thing to make the right ones. And live by them.”
― April White, Marking Time

“Our flaws were what made us unique as individuals; and accepting them and working through our differences was what made us stronger as a couple.”
― S.C. Miotto, Diamond Love

“We go through lessons to learn lessons, and the only reason we keep living the same ones over and over is that we don’t know how to let them go.”
― Jettie Woodruff, Our Tribe: A thirty day dare to be unapologetically you

“Family’s not just shared blood,’ she said. ‘It’s who you’ll bleed for.”
― Jess Raven, The Becoming Trilogy Box Set