Emily King

“sparklers out in front of her. Staring at them, she thought: These are all I have. I do not have the wide, bright beacon of some solid old lighthouse, guiding ships safely home, past the jagged rocks. I only have these little glimmers that flicker and then go out. Let me see my daughter like my mother could never see me. Let her see me, too.”
― Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

“I deserved to grow, and to change, to become all the girls I could ever be over the course of my life, each one better than the last.”
― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

“the ocean is my mother.”
― Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

“We are required only to keep looking.”
― J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction