Portia

“we are thirty in our hearts, before all the disappointment, all the ways it turned out to be so much more painful than we thought it would be, but then again, it has also been magic.”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

“Something about the physical labor moves me. It's as if I'm saying "all right, Maine. All right, winter. All right, time. You win.”
― Amity Gaige, Heartwood

“Eventually, I understood that motherhood, as the child imagines it, is unperformable. No woman is a star. No woman is a god or a tree or a magician.”
― Amity Gaige, Heartwood

“How cruel life is only this long. Now that I see clearly, I’d like more time.”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent