Amy Benson

“we entered the hospital as expectant parents and we left as something else, unexpectant, if that’s a word, not just of a child but, in time, of a certain happiness. We seemed to cross into a new, barren country, a gray place where dreams were mostly lost causes.”
― Mitch Albom, Twice

“Each story has a monster in it who made them tough instead of brave, so they open their legs rather than their hearts where the folded child is tucked. —Toni Morrison”
― Sadeqa Johnson, The House of Eve

“Secrecy is a loan against your better judgment. You pay the interest in regret.”
― Mitch Albom, Twice

“She has seen the spectacular shimmering blue of the seven oceans from two hundred miles away. Cerulean? Cobalt? Ultramarine? There was no shade vivid enough that she could name. Ninety-nine point nine percent of human beings who have ever lived have never seen that blue. And she has.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere