Dana Alyse

“The truth is, being a parent is mostly just reacting. Sometimes you get it right and sometimes you don't. You give what you can. And at the end of the day, most of it is just being there.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Unsinkable Greta James

“It seems like an impossible job, being a parent, and a sad one too, watching them pinwheel further and further away and out into the world, so much more interesting and complicated than you imagined they might be, like a song that starts out as one thing and ends up something else—not necessarily better or worse, but different. And entirely out of your control.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Unsinkable Greta James

“It’s a particularly strange kind of loss, when something you don’t think you even want gets taken away from you.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Unsinkable Greta James

“Maybe the point isn't always to make things last. Maybe it's just to make them count.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Unsinkable Greta James