Becca Schmidt

“I have learned that one must forgive oneself the past or else the journey into the future becomes unbearable.”
― Kate Morton, The Clockmaker's Daughter

“How remarkable that the human race valued the lives of its individual members sufficiently to commemorate each one’s brief time on the ancient earth; and yet, at once, could engage in slaughter of the most meaningless and general kind.”
― Kate Morton, The Clockmaker's Daughter

“Her official published findings were that memory is linked to strong emotion, and that negative moments are like scribbling with permanent marker on the wall of the brain.”
― Jodi Picoult, Where There's Smoke

“Grandmothers in Botswana tell their children that if you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, you must go together.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time