Claudia

“Books are not medicine, they are food. You won't remember every bite but you will remember the taste.”
― Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

“When family members lead unhappy lives or suffer an extremely difficult fate, it’s often easier to reject them than to feel the pain of loving them. Anger is often an easier emotion to feel than sadness.”
― Mark Wolynn, It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

“And if you’ve been somebody’s first call, it’s hard not to be their first call anymore. She says it’s one of the reasons why parents sometimes feel sad when their kids are getting married. It’s not just the empty nest. They’re not the first call anymore. I’m not Andy’s first call anymore. It doesn’t mean I want to be his girlfriend, and it doesn’t mean I don’t like her. But it was sad. It’s different. The doctor says it’s important to be sad.”
― Linda Holmes, Evvie Drake Starts Over

“It’s no accident that every dictatorship always tries to break down the family, because it’s in the family that you get the strength to be able to fight,”
― Rod Dreher, Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents