Shannon

“I feel like a von Trapp," Ruby said between puffs, "But fatter, older and with absolutely no energy for singing.”
― Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden

“That's the trouble, I can't forget him. He was everything to me, except mine.”
― Jennifer Worth, The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times

“She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“So much in life came down to timing.”
― Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden