Joseph

“Maybe getting to know a child wasn't entirely unlike meditation. You kept going at it from all different angles, and once in a while something clicked.”
― Jean Thompson, The Humanity Project

“The danger of sending your children to college was that they would be contaminated by subversive forces, bad influences and bawdy women."

Rolled with laughter. Parent's fear, college student's desire.”
― Jean Thompson, The Year We Left Home

“His heart cracked open and flooded all the space around it.”
― Jean Thompson, The Humanity Project