Kathryn

“Crunchy is just incomplete peanut butter. Like someone forgot halfway through that they were supposed to be mashing it.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Faraway Inn

“While the little dragon flew in circles overhead, Calisa kissed Jack. He tasted like an epiphany. Like chocolate cake with raspberry jam. And like a future she wanted.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Faraway Inn

“The say karma is a bitch, but I think working for the hottest single dad I’ve ever met is the worst kind of torture. I’d take karma any day.”
― Laura Pavlov, Whisper Sweet Nothings

“You build what you want to build, offer it as widely as you can to whoever you think will appreciate it, and if other people like it or don’t like it… that’s on them. Not you.”
She thought of Ethan. That sentence shouldn’t have applied to him, but… it kind of did. He hadn’t wanted what she built. And that was on him.
Jack laughed at something one of the guests said, and Calisa peeked again into the sitting room. He was chatting with the guests as he served cake to Zef. He likes me as I am. He saw her as she was. He listened to her. He never tried to change her. He’s what I need and want.
As if he sensed her watching, he looked over. Calisa met his eyes and smiled, and he smiled back, instantly and fully, like he’d been ready and waiting for her to notice him.
“I think I understand,” Calisa said to Auntie Zee.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Faraway Inn