Mckenzie Clark

“He’s the one who taught me what love looked like and felt like and then taught me it’s a lie. I have never been able to come back from that.”
― Christina Lauren, Twice in a Blue Moon

“She wished for Mr. Warren or Aunt Della or Uncle Syd to come and help them. Her mom knew how to do lots of things. She knew how to find blueberries and catch fish and shoot a gun, but Emaleen was worried that she didn’t know how to keep them safe.”
― Eowyn Ivey, Black Woods, Blue Sky

“And sometimes focusing on what you can control is the only way to lessen the pang in your chest when you think about the things you can’t.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

“but I’m sure I’m the only one of the two of us who is so fixated on our brief affair. It was the single most defining moment in my life; no doubt it’s just one of many in his. I need to move on.”
― Christina Lauren, Twice in a Blue Moon