Morgan Clark

“In my multifold years of life, I have learned that most people get along as best they can. They don’t intend to hurt anyone. It is merely a terrible by-product of surviving.”
― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours

“Chapter 31: Tragedy Then Farce Chapter 32: A Brawling Woman in a Wide House Chapter 33: Sorcery of Physics Chapter 34: The Substance of Things Chapter 35: West of the Sun Chapter 36: Four Long Arms Whirling Chapter 37: Gambling for Redemption Chapter 38: Strangers and Pilgrims Chapter 39: Watching the Buffalo Chapter 40: Educated Author’s Note Acknowledgments A Note on the Text About the Author The past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, & thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“A woman’s past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses. Her own music. To hear the tune, she must only stop talking. To herself, I mean. We’re always trying to persuade ourselves of things.”
― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours

“This is the challenge of life, isn’t it? Moving forward without annihilating what has gone before. Knowing what to clasp onto and what to release without destroying yourself. Trying not to be the meteor and the dinosaur at once. There was also, in the front aisle nearest”
― Matt Haig, The Life Impossible