Janelle

“The benefit of carrying the entire world on your shoulders was that you didn’t have to stare it in the face.”
― Rhian J. Martin, A Different Familiar

“Traveling, she realized, was like a slow dismemberment of the body. It plucked the heart out of her and split it into pieces, leaving a bit behind wherever she went, never to be whole again.”
― Rhian J. Martin, A Different Familiar

“It was all very isolating to think about, what people use to define themselves and their actions. And at the end of the day, did it make people feel better? Maybe it did. Maybe it gave them something to grasp at in the ambiguous vein of life on Earth.”
― Rhian J. Martin, A Different Familiar

“She supposed this was the real definition of a mother – a woman who willingly allows her heart to break over and over again for her children.”
― Rhian J. Martin, A Different Familiar