Laura

“All three had been taught French at school. How deeply they now wished that they had learned it!”
― E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

“Life’s a funny thing, isn’t it? You spend it waiting for that one blinding moment of clarity … that one magic thread that sews it all together. And then one day, you wake up an older thing than you ever thought you’d be, and you realize you’ve wasted your days looking for something that was never really there at all. There are no solutions in this life, Eamon. There are only moments in the sun … and moments in the shade … and the trick of it all is to understand where you’re standing before it’s too late to call it home. I wish you peace in the fields beyond, because you will not find it here.”
― Jonathan Edward Durham, Winterset Hollow

“A scar just means you were stronger than whatever tried to hurt you.”
― April Henry, Girl Forgotten

“The fictional characters we love stamp their names on our hearts. They show us how to fight our battles, how to change, how to make it to page three hundred a different person than we were on page one.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Book Witch