Renee

“memory is linked to strong emotion, and that negative moments are like scribbling with permanent marker on the wall of the brain. But there’s a fine line between a negative moment and a traumatic one. Negative moments get remembered. Traumatic ones get forgotten, or so warped that they are unrecognizable, or else they turn into the big, bleak, white nothing I get in my head when I try to focus on that night.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

“A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“If you are a mother, you must have someone to take care of.
If that someone is taken from you, whether it is a newborn or an individual old enough to have offspring of its own, can you still call yourself a mother?”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

“In the wild, an elephant mother and daughter stay in close proximity their whole lives; I hope I am that lucky.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time