Jodi Tikkanen

“Because happiness isn’t made of fun. It’s made of solid, real things. It’s made of paychecks and clean clothing, and hot food and healthy children, and a man who can look you in the eye when he comes home because he has nothing to hide. It’s not so rare. In fact, it’s so common people don’t notice it. They look for roses when they should be looking for indoor plumbing.”
― Kathleen Tessaro, Rare Objects

“Change, like healing, takes time.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“She had lived long enough to learn that families didn’t dissolve or reconfigure neatly, but left debris lying everywhere, and it was human debris. And sometimes, like tonight, she felt as if she were tripping over the bodies.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Come Home

“Making the decision to have a child—it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. —Elizabeth Stone”
― Lisa Scottoline, Keep Quiet