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

“Honey or condensed milk with your bread?” he was so excited that he said, “Both,” and then, so as not to seem greedy, he added, “but don’t bother about the bread, please.”
― 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