Status Updates From A Lantern in Her Hand

“There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.” p68

"But all Harrison and I care for is our art. Music is our very life. Knowing that we're going to be so devoted to it and perhaps never be well enough off, we're just not having children."

"But, Isabelle, if people waited to be rich to have children. If we! . . . Oh, Isabelle! . . . You'd make me laugh if I didn't feel so like crying. Can't afford it? How can you afford to miss it . . . "

So beautiful, so wise, so well written, so profound, and yet I find myself only able to read a single chapter at a time as each is so full of the heart-wrenching tragedies of prairie life.