Brittlea Brown

“I had a mother who left when I was a child. I didn’t miss her. Maeve was there, with her red coat and her black hair, standing at the bottom of the stairs, the white marble floor with the little black squares, the snow coming down in glittering sheets in the windows behind her, the windows as wide as a movie screen, the ship in the waves of the grandfather clock rocking the minutes away.”
― Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

“A wise person would have known this, but sometimes it is better to feel a prickle than to be wise.”
― Rumer Godden, The Story of Holly & Ivy

“And delight reigned.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“A newborn baby has a powerful effect on character. But so does a toddler. A child. A preteen. A teenager. A mother changes with every stage. Some stages are within a mother's skill set. Some stages are like being told to scale a cliff using a rope attached to nothing.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Sentence