Stephanie

“Over and over, she’d learned that what the dead most often conveyed was love and forgiveness. She could only conclude that these were the two most important things in the world—so important that people carried them into the afterlife for the sole purpose of being able to hand them back to the living.”
― Patrick Ryan, Buckeye

“It's easy to go everywhere when you're the one who sets the traps.”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“Natalie’s like a border collie, my mother used to say to the other women at church. She needs a project, otherwise she starts chewing the cabinet corners. Are you saying my son is a project? I imagined Doug saying. No, I imagined my mother replying. I’m saying he’s the cabinet corner.”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“The things that we love tell us what we are.’ If I ever get a tattoo, it’s going to be that, right across the top of my chest.”
― Patrick Ryan, Buckeye