Alyssa

“The act of mothering is not limited to the bearing of children.”
― Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River

“Better is here. Stay, and make it better.”
― Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

“It’s taken all my life to learn protection is the promise you can’t make. It sounds absolute, and you mean it and believe it, but that vow is provisional and makeshift and no god ever lived who could keep it half the time.”
― Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

“It is not easy to make a friend let alone lose one.”
― Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse