Erin Caufield

“Life is not a series of isolated ponds and puddles; life is this river you below, before you. It flows from the past through the present on its way to the future.”
― Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True

“And Kelsea wondered suddenly whether humanity ever actually changed. Did people grow and learn at all as the centuries past? Or was humanity merely like the tide, enlightenment advancing and then retreating as circumstances shifted? The most defining characteristic of the species might be lapse.”
― Erika Johansen, The Invasion of the Tearling

“The future was only disasters of the past, waiting to happen anew.”
― Erika Johansen , The Queen of the Tearling

“Those who cease to worry about their souls often find them difficult to reclaim later”
― Erika Johansen, The Queen of the Tearling