Wendy

“Pretty much all my life I’ve wondered about my birth parents, wondered who they were, what they were like. But since I had my children, I don’t wonder anymore. Because I look at my kids, and I can see the answer. It’s right there in their features, in who they are. Everything that isn’t Rick and his family must be from my side. It’s my kids who are finally showing me where I come from.”
― Daphne Kalotay, Russian Winter

“Bolshoi…A mother’s life, one long errand. One enormous chore.”
― Daphne Kalotay, Russian Winter

“am not easy to love but I am well loved. I try to love well in return.”
― Roxane Gay, An Untamed State

“If there was one thing she was learning from all this, it was how easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you’d have forever.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones