Bellewether

by Susanna Kearsley

I’d quickly learned that, when you argue with your brother and your brother is a lawyer, you get slammed by all the subclauses.

she had lived with a heavy place deep in her heart where a piece of her innocence had been torn out and replaced with the weightier truth of the world.

Some fights are rooted so deep they’re a force you can’t stand against. Best to get out of the way.”

If life has taught me one thing only, it is never to look back. Be happy where you are. Grow roots where you are standing. If you have the ones you love, then you have everything.”