Elaina

“You can endure an awful lot when you know that you'll be fed at the end of it.”
― Abigail Dean, Girl A

“To them, the past was a sickness which my siblings still carried; you could catch it from a conversation.”
― Abigail Dean, Girl A

“I recognized that my parents were older, and that some of that was my fault. The unanswered messages. The phone call from Dr K, in the early, early morning. Weren't those the things that aged people, more than the fact of time?”
― Abigail Dean, Girl A

“it was a combination of beauty and strength that made southern women “whiskey in a teacup.” We may be delicate and ornamental on the outside, she said, but inside we’re strong and fiery.”
― Reese Witherspoon, Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits