Emily

“Regrets get heavier as you get older.”
― Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

“I am an expert at not wanting to want things.” I held my sword up for a moment longer, then lowered it, the way he’d lowered his. “But I’m starting to realize that the person I need to be, the person I’m becoming—she’s not that girl anymore.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Brianne has a look of genuine surprise on her face. “Cleo, that’s so great! We don’t get many new knitters on the island.” “The last one turned out to be a crocheter,” Dolores mutters, as dark as if she’d said murderer. “The audacity!” Delta’s green eyes dance. “Ma, you should have shoved her crochet hook right up her—”
― Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

“You think I didn’t fight the same fight? I halfway convinced myself that as long as Avery was just a riddle or a puzzle, as long as I was just playing, I’d be fine. Well, joke’s on me, because somewhere along the way, I stopped playing.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy