Camille Hoffmann

“It's a fearful responsibility to have a child in your house you can't trust.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I always thought that the "thriving" would come when everything was perfect, and what I learned is that it's actually down in the mess that things get good.
It was such a blessing to find myself thriving in the middle of the pain. Unless you find a way to do that, there's always going to be this fake illusion that once you get there-wherever "there" is for you-you'll be happy. But that's just not life. If you can't find happiness in the ugliness, you're not going to find it in the beauty, either.”
― Joanna Gaines, The Magnolia Story

“Those who don't build must burn.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“The lessons my parents taught are still with me. I keep a tighter leash when raising my kids than my parents did, but I often find myself doing or saying the same things they did. My mom, for instance, was always cheerful when coming in from work; I try to behave the same way when I finish writing for the day. My dad would listen intently when I came to him with a problem, to help me find a way to solve it on my own; I try to do the same with my own kids. At night, while I'm tucking my kids in bed, I ask them to tell me three nice things that each of their siblings did for them that day, in the hopes that it will help them grow as close as Micah, Dana, and I did. And more frequently than I ever would have imagined possible growing up, I find myself telling my children "It's your life", or "No one ever promised that life would be fair", and "What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things".”
― Nicholas Sparks, Three Weeks with My Brother