Kristin

“I want you to love that daughter of yours with all your heart. I want you to be there for her and for your wife even when things get so hard you don't think you can walk another step.”
― Gayle Forman, After Life

“Frexspar the Godly: A tall man, especially compared to old-stock Munchkinland farmers, those barrelly folk whose chins rarely grow four feet above the soil.”
― Gregory Maguire, Elphie: A Wicked Childhood

“Elphie opens her mouth and closes it again. It will not happen often in her life. She will rarely be able to ignore the urge to motor through any given moment with as much commotion as focus.”
― Gregory Maguire, Elphie: A Wicked Childhood

“Her mom starts to sob but it's a different tenor than it has been all these years, not choked in grief but laced in joy, because love and loss are the flip sides of the same coin. She's grieving Amber because she lost her, but she's not entirely losing her because she loves her.”
― Gayle Forman, After Life