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“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.”
― Greer Hendricks, The Wife Between Us

“It’s not God’s job to decide what happens,” she’d said. “It’s his job to help you get through it.”
― Judy Blume, In the Unlikely Event

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― Judy Blume, In the Unlikely Event

“Not that memories were enough—they didn’t keep you warm on a cold winter’s night. They couldn’t hold you when you were frightened or sad. But they were better than nothing.”
― Judy Blume, In the Unlikely Event

“Life is a series of unlikely events, isn’t it? Hers certainly is. One unlikely event after another, adding up to a rich, complicated whole. And who knows what’s still to come?”
― Judy Blume, In the Unlikely Event

“She had been brought up to believe in God. To believe in people. To believe that evil didn’t really exist, that it was simply an absence of good, the way darkness is an absence of light.”
― Naomi Ragen, The The Devil in Jerusalem

“In love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I’d like to be known.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“She wanted to bottle how safe she felt in this moment, so she could drink of it later when loneliness and fear left her parched.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“Your father’s right,” she said. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I’d like to be known.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“Don’t think about who they are. Think about who you are and what sacrifices you can live with and what will break you.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“But love has to be stronger than hate, or there is no future for us.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“Misses everything,” Lila said, and gave the faintest smile. “It’s like a joke. Like, there should be a Mister Everything somewhere.”
― Jennifer Weiner, Mrs. Everything

“You make the wrong choices, you make mistakes, you disappear for a decade, you marry the wrong man. You get hurt. You lose sight of who you are, or of who you want to be, and then you remember, and if you’re lucky you have sisters or friends who remind you when you forget your best intentions. You come back to yourself, again and again. You try, and fail, and try again, and fail again. She”
― Jennifer Weiner, Mrs. Everything

“You make the wrong choices, you make mistakes, you disappear for a decade, you marry the wrong man. You get hurt. You lose sight of who you are, or of who you want to be, and then you remember, and if you’re lucky you have sisters or friends who remind you when you forget your best intentions. You come back to yourself, again and again. You try, and fail, and try again, and fail again.”
― Jennifer Weiner, Mrs. Everything

“I’m not giving you up,” she said. The thin shell holding me together cracked, and suddenly I was weeping with my whole body. “And you’d better not be giving me up,” she said. Every syllable, deliberate. “I’m not giving you up, Shirl,” I sobbed. “I was so afraid that—” “I have fewer years ahead of me than behind me,” she said. “And you are my brother’s daughter.”
― Dani Shapiro, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

“If it wasn’t thought, it wasn’t so. If it wasn’t spoken, it hadn’t happened. Except that secrets, particularly the most deeply held ones, have a way of leaching into everything surrounding them.”
― Dani Shapiro, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

“Do we carry the guilt from the sins of past generations? If so, can we bear the weight of that burden?”
― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours

“We didn’t have fancy dresses and scooter toys on the porch and stuffed teddy bears and Crayolas and little china tea sets there. All we had was the river, but the river fed us and carried us and set us free.”
― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours

“Don’t borrow trouble from round the bend,”
― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours

“It’s funny how what you’re used to seems like it’s right even if it’s bad.”
― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours

“What the mind don’t ’member, the heart still know. Love, the strongest thang of all. Stronger than all the rest.”
― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours

“Secrets ain’t a healthy thang, no matter how old they is. Sometimes the oldest secrets is the worst of all.”
― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours

“The best thing is to know. I always tell ’em, best to be who you is. What you is deep down inside. Ain’t no other good way of livin’.”
― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours

“We were young women with lives and husbands and children by the time we were brought together again. We chose not to interfere with one another. It was enough for each of us to know that the others were well….”
― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours

“Even the ramparts of reputation, and ambition, and social position couldn’t erase the love of sisters, their bond with one another.”
― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours