Kristina

“Sometimes, the stories we’re told when we’re young about what it means to be,” she made air quotes, “good, don’t take into account our own needs.” She paused in that way she had, to let things sink in. “If we were talking about you and a child you’d agreed to care for, we’d be having a different conversation. But we’re not. We’re talking about you and another adult. Is something really good if it makes another person happy but makes you miserable? Is that how the adult you are now chooses to define what's good?”
― Khristin Wierman, This Time Could Be Different

“She rarely admitted the truth that she had passed the mid-century milestone. She’d been forty-eight for two years and forty-nine for three.”
― Amanda Radley, Detour to Love

“Forgiveness is such a tricky term.” Olivia smoothed her skirt. “What it actually means is an absence of anger or resentment. Somehow we’ve made it more complicated and decided it puts the onus on someone who’s been hurt to make the person who hurt them feel better or condone what that person did.”
― Khristin Wierman, This Time Could Be Different

“Sometimes, adults need a villain in order to make sense of something that’s too painful to understand.”
― Khristin Wierman, This Time Could Be Different