Jaclyn

“She embellished the facts because she was aware that life is how we tell it, so why would she jot down trivia?”
― Isabel Allende, A Long Petal of the Sea

“The Hopper painting hung on the wall with an indifference so vast it began to feel personal, as though it had been painted for this moment: Your troubles are huge and meaningless, it seemed to say, there is only the sun on the side of a house.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Anything Is Possible

“No one picks a friend for us; we come together by choice. We are not tied together through ceremony or the responsibility to create a son; we tie ourselves together through moments. The spark when we first meet. Laughter and tears shared. Secrets packed away to be treasured, hoarded, and protected. The wonder that someone can be so different from you and yet still understand your heart in a way no one else will.”
― Lisa See, The Island of Sea Women

“No good thing renders its possessor happy, unless his mind is reconciled to the possibility of loss.”
― Seneca