Caitlin

“who cares what word you use? Some aunts are completely irrelevant, and some aunts have been there since the day their niece was born. I had one grandmother I never saw and one who, when she died, I cried for three days. The word isn’t what matters. It’s the specific relationship. You love that kid more than anything on this planet.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“It’s strange, the patchwork stories we tell someone when we want them to catch up, a shortcut to knowing us, as if such a thing were possible.”
― Clare Leslie Hall, Broken Country

“I’d forgotten how young children, much like animals, can sense your pain without being afraid of it.”
― Clare Leslie Hall, Broken Country

“People can’t really multitask; all we can do is shift attention back and forth between tasks while wasting a lot of it on each shift.[”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness