Ashleigh

“Your head is the house you live in, so you have to do the maintenance.”
― Linda Holmes, Evvie Drake Starts Over

“Eveleth had always hated how blushing felt. It was accompanied by such a miserable desire to cease to be, utterly, to turn into a fog that could be waved away.”
― Linda Holmes, Evvie Drake Starts Over

“You would be shocked how many people tell me that they got through cancer, or divorce, or having their house burn down. But then they lost their keys or they ran out of coffee or the dog chewed on their slipper and they fell to pieces. It’s just that last insult.”
― Linda Holmes, Evvie Drake Starts Over

“My therapist calls it grieving the first call.” “What does that mean?” “She says when something happens, good or bad, you can only call one person first. And if you’ve been somebody’s first call, it’s hard not to be their first call anymore. She says it’s one of the reasons why parents sometimes feel sad when their kids are getting married. It’s not just the empty nest. They’re not the first call anymore.”
― Linda Holmes, Evvie Drake Starts Over