Vanessa

“Maybe it was possible, we thought, to rise above the pathetic holidays of our youth.”
― Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

“Is everything perfect? Hell, no. Everything’s a mess. A crazy, galloping, heartbreaking mess. You can’t fix everything. Not even close. But you can look for reasons to be grateful. More than that, you can work to create them.”
― Katherine Center, How to Walk Away

“Part of her wishes she could travel forward in time, and skip to the end of the war. But there is also part of her that prays for time to stop. For there is no telling what the future might bring.”
― Georgia Hunter, We Were the Lucky Ones

“for to be in love means to be able to share everything—your dreams, your faults, your deepest fears. Without these truths, a relationship will collapse.”
― Georgia Hunter, We Were the Lucky Ones