Jane Blythe

“I’m going to tell you a really important lesson I learned after Emily died. I thought I knew what it was to be part of a team. I was in the army, joined Delta, I trusted my team with everything, and knew they had my back no matter what. Then I lost my wife and was the sole parent to a newborn. Lolly was my responsibility, and I took that seriously. I tried to juggle everything myself. Funeral arrangements, caring for Lolly, taking care of the house, laundry, cleaning, grocery shopping, midnight feeds, and a colicky baby. I thought I had to do it all and didn’t want to accept help from anyone. You know what eventually happened?” “What?” “I crashed. Two months after Lolly was born, I was cooking dinner, lay down for just a moment, and woke up an hour later to someone hammering on my apartment door. Dinner burned which set off the smoke detectors, the fire department came, and I realized that raising my daughter wasn’t a mission I could undertake without my team. I needed my parents, needed Bear and the rest of Alpha team, needed Prey and the Oswalds. So, I reached out for help.”
― Jane Blythe, Lethal Risk

“You're a man who has made mistakes, who hasn’t always done the right thing, even done some things you're ashamed of, but in the end you are a good man. Remember that and move forward, don’t forget that if there are parts of yourself you don’t like, you can change them. Become better, do better, expect better of yourself. Be the person you want to see looking back at you in the mirror.”
― Jane Blythe, Saving Eric