Wendy Barto

“You must always remember that sometimes knocking on doors just isn’t enough.” “What else is there in a case like this?” “Sometimes, if you want something badly enough, you have to smash the damn door down.”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Things We Cannot Say

“You love like that only once in a lifetime--you can love from a place of innocence only once. It always leads to the deepest hurt, and after that, you're changed and hardened by it.”
― Kelly Rimmer, Before I Let You Go

“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“I am a mother and mothers don’t have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are adults.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale