Patti

“Because I’m learning that being a grandmother is not about the things you have to do. It’s about the things you want to do. The fact is that motherhood is mainly about requirements.”
― Anna Quindlen, Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting

“She goes into the bathroom and gets one of the clean glasses, rips off the sanitized paper top, and puts the glass upside down on the desk. “What’s that for?” I ask. “It’s an old Jewish superstition. If you lose something, put”
― Susan Patterson, Things I Wish I Told My Mother

“In Nanaville there is always in the back of my mind the understanding that I am building a memory out of spare parts and that, someday, that memory will be all that’s left of me.”
― Anna Quindlen, Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting

“a glass upside down. Whatever you lost will soon turn up.”
― Susan Patterson, Things I Wish I Told My Mother