Cresta McGowan

“I didn’t know yet. But I also knew better than to force it. That was where the worst of my art came from. Maybe the worst of life also.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, The Bookshop at Water's End

“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

“Look up from that phone. Maybe you won’t feel so brokenly special.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, The Bookshop at Water's End