Joyce Daley

“My grandmother was a girl when they planted those trees. None of the adults there that day lived to see them grow to full height. People were wiser back then, and less selfish. The understood that they were part of a line, not the beginning, middle, and end of it.”
― Kate Morton, Homecoming

“It's not that you don't need anyone-just that you don't need everyone.”
― Sarah Damoff, The Bright Years

“Sometimes a woman's choice is between impossible and impossible and impossible, and she just has to make it. Survival calculations become more urgent than rightness.”
― Sarah Damoff, The Bright Years

“I’ve learned how big of a dream it is to have a small life. That the cost of ambition is high.”
― Sarah Damoff, The Bright Years