Jessica Cramer

“This was a fight they'd had a hundred times, but now they smiled at each other about it, all the resentment gone. Miriam realized suddenly how many of their fights had really been about them trying to say that they fit wrong.”
― Helena Greer, Season of Love

“We had noticed everything once - the water collecting on the berried ivy, the mistletoe in the dark-armed oak, the barn where the owl sat under the tiles, the smoke like a message curling up from forest-burnt fires, the ancientness of time and us part of it.

Why had we learned to hurry through every day when every day was all we had?”
― Jeanette Winterson, Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

“She was right to be cautious about coming to a place like this, I know. These days, the danger of just being alive and in public is practically as American as fireworks on the Fourth or apple pie or voter suppression. But this. This is what it's all about. You take your chances going to the movies or out to eat or to a concert because this is what it feels like to be alive.”
― Leah Johnson, Rise to the Sun

“Because saying things out loud imbued them with a certain kind of power, and I did not want to give power to the idea that something might have happened to Annabella.”
― Katrina Leno, Summer of Salt