Kadi Mcmillan

“It was comforting, the way this place got more beautiful every day. Wasn’t that the gift of a home? You looked at it the same way, but then when you needed it to, it showed you all over again the many ways you’d been during the time that you had been living there. The many ways it had brought you back to yourself. The many ways it still brought you back to yourself.”
― Laura Dave, Eight Hundred Grapes

“So is setting an example for your niece about how she doesn’t need to turn herself inside out to be loved. How she doesn’t need to set herself on fire to keep someone else warm. Demanding to have your own needs met isn’t problematic—it’s heroic, and kids are watching. They’re always watching. If you set an example that tells her the only way she’s worthy of love is by giving everyone everything, she’ll internalize that message.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“Her mother had once told her that some people you meet are meant to be a part of your world forever, but some are meant only to change the course of your life and then move on.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Room on Rue Amélie

“He said it’s okay to not be okay, so long as it doesn’t become all we know.”
― T.J. Klune, Somewhere Beyond the Sea