DeAnn

“Parents, grandparents, maybe aunts or uncles or siblings or family friends. They're all cocooned in their little clusters of support, and it warms me to see that. They're lucky. Even if they don't realize it. They have people in their lives who care enough to brave a rainy night on the waterfront to see their school projects, to hear them speak. To applaud them. It makes all the difference, having a cheerleader. I lost touch with the ones I did have.”
― Debbie Johnson

“If she hid for thirty minutes, then waved at three more people on her way to the elevator, maybe no one would notice if she spent the rest of the party hiding in an empty room, reading her Purse Book and eating her Napkin Cheese.”
― Ally Carter, The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year

“Life was dynamic and vast, and she wondered if she'd ever be able to experience enough of it to feel satisfied, if she could die happy knowing she'd only gotten to rub up against the small corner of the world she lived in.”
― Karissa Chen, Homeseeking

“Because the world had decided that to be soft was to be weak, even though in Joan’s experience being soft and flexible was always more durable than being hard and brittle. Admitting you were afraid always took more guts than pretending you weren’t. Being willing to make a mistake got you further than never trying. The world had decided that to be fallible was weak. But we are all fallible. The strong ones are the ones who accept it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere