DeAnn

“Suchi knew now that home wasn't a place. It wasn't moments that could be pinned down. It was people, people who share the same ghosts as you, folks long gone, places long disappeared. People who knew you, saw you, loved you. When those people were far-flung, your home was too. And when those people were gone, home lived on inside of you.”
― Karissa Chen, Homeseeking

“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

“She hated him because he was handsome and charming and they lived in a world where a man didn’t have to be anything else.”
― Ally Carter, The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year

“When picking up the pieces of a shattered reality, love is an absolute vital place to start. It is the force that moves the soul through dimensions, the permeating energy that flows in and through all that we are and will be.”
― Tariq Trotter, The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are