Hana

“I’m always proud of you.” She wraps her hand around mine. “I trust you. The only person whose expectations you have to live up to is yourself.” . . . “I want you to find what makes you happy.”
― Christina Lauren, In a Holidaze

“It’ll be okay. Things always look worse from the inside.”
― Christina Lauren, In a Holidaze

“Someone once told me that growing up feeling loved allows you to go on to love other people. Maybe love is simply a huge chain letter, passed down through the generations. The details of the stories begin not to matter.”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet

“I shuffle over to the tree, sliding beneath it and lying on my back so I can look up through the gnarled branches. It's a kaleidoscope of color and texture: the smooth light bulbs, the prickly pine needles. Ornaments of glass, and silk, and spiky metallic stars. A little wooden drummer Theo gave Ricky nearly twenty years ago. Laminated paper ornaments of our handprints from preschool, handmade ceramic blobs that were supposed to be pigs, or cows, or dogs. Nothing matches; there's no theme. But there is so much love in this tree, so much history.”
― Christina Lauren, In a Holidaze