Rachel

“Though you never think it possible, you can celebrate and grieve in the same breath. It is a holy abomination.”
― Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River

“Memory is a wicked thing that warps and twists. But paper and ink receive the truth without emotion, and they read it back without partiality. That, I believe, is why so few women are taught to read and write. God only knows what they would do with the power of pen and ink at their disposal.”
― Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River

“I didn't know it was happiness at the time, because it felt like busyness and exhaustion and financial stress and self doubt.”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

“He said so many things, and I reckon all those things put together wouldn't say as much as he said when he'd wrap his arm around my shoulder.”
― Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe