Misty L

“Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end. “Gogol,”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“Not ever. Not once. You never know. You only guess. This is how it always is. You have to make these huge decisions on behalf of your kid, this tiny human whose fate and future is entirely in your hands, who trusts you to know what’s good and right and then to be able to make that happen. You never have enough information. You don’t get to see the future. And if you screw up, if with your incomplete, contradictory information you make the wrong call, well, nothing less than your child’s entire future and happiness is at stake. It’s impossible. It’s heartbreaking. It’s maddening. But there’s no alternative.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

“This was the pleasure of a long life: the way some things worked themselves out.”
― Ann Patchett, Commonwealth