Cresta McGowan

“Even as I knew what was happening—a panic attack—I couldn’t make it disappear. Knowing what it is doesn’t cure it.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, The Bookshop at Water's End

“Sometimes the ocean makes me feel like everything is going to work out and be fine, and sometimes it makes me feel like the world is too, too big and nothing will ever be right because there’s too much of it all.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, The Bookshop at Water's End

“She always walked with great authority, her upper body leaned forward, her chin held high in the air, as someone striding up a hill with great purpose.”
― Ann Dávila Cardinal, The Storyteller's Death

“a fiction of her imagination,”
― Loreth Anne White, The Patient's Secret