Nancy

“Mehri has always treated parenting like she’s cooking a big warming pan of something: a pinch of that, a pinch of this, she’s sure it will turn out fine in the end. Cora’s own approach has always felt more like baking a cake: carefully measuring out ingredients and trying not to ruin everything. She admires Mehri’s way.”
― Florence Knapp, The Names

“Because sometimes their need to please previous generations is greater than their need to love future ones.”
― Florence Knapp, The Names

“None of this matters. None of it. It’s just stuff. You can build another clinic somewhere else, but that? What you have with her? That is not easy to find. The universe doesn’t just hand out true love. And I know that’s what this is because I see you’re willing to kill yourself over it. So if you have that, if you’re one of the lucky ones, why in God’s green earth would you give it up?”
― Abby Jimenez, Say You'll Remember Me

“But then this thought floats through my head: You survive whatever you need to, however you can.”
― Jessa Hastings, The Conditions of Will