Cara Fuller Engelbrecht

“Because when I see kids come to school with their lunch in a paper bag, that means someone cares about them. Miss Laura, can I please have my lunch in a paper bag?”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“realize how awful people are to each other, how a pervasive cynicism exists in most of us that stops us from seeing the best parts of one another.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, In an Instant

“Because—and he still did not understand how people like his brothers could not see this—inside the pages of each and every book was a whole other world.”
― Natalie Jenner, The Jane Austen Society

“During the Great War, shell-shocked soldiers had been encouraged to read Jane Austen in particular—Kipling had coped with the loss of his soldier son by reading her books aloud to his family each night—Winston Churchill had recently used them to get through the Second World War.”
― Natalie Jenner, The Jane Austen Society