April Merritt

“And I suddenly understood that getting drunk was just one more way to leave this place, this time.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell The Wolves I'm Home

“When you get . . . to the end, you see that love and family are all there is. Nothing else matters.”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“can gauge how important something is to you by how hard you are willing to work to get it.”
― Paul Stanley, Face the Music: A Life Exposed

“BEING A MOTHER GIVES YOU a singular sort of vision, a prism through which you can see your child with many different faces all at once. It is the reason you can watch him shatter a ceramic lamp, and still remember him as an angel. Or hold him as he cries, but imagine his smile. Or watch him walk toward you, the size of a man, and see the dimpled skin of an infant.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Pact