Noell Howe

“He had little use for God these days, and yet a feeling came over him, so urgent and instructive as to be nearly a physical voice: You belong exactly here, exactly now.”
― Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

“This is a place where a fisherman straps his dugout canoe paddles to a bicycle to get a four-foot Tarpon to market. Where men cut a tree from the volcano at four in the morning and deliver it by horse cart to replace a washed-out electric pole. Where a meter reader reads a broken meter faithfully every month for years and everyone involved accepts the absurdity without complaint. You did not fight the system here. You found the workaround, and the workaround was always more interesting than whatever you'd planned.”
― Debbie Goehring, The Monkey Lady's Gift

“Sometimes people think if they love a broken person enough, they can be what finally repairs them, but the problem with that is the other person just ends up broken, too.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“But children veer out from their parents like so many explorers in the wilderness, I’ve learned.”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June