Maureen

“The writer writes the words. The given reader reads the words. And the book, the unique and unrepeatable book, doesn’t exist until the given reader meets the writer on the page.”
― Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

“I liked being pregnant. I was good at it. Joe and I had decided that two was the right number of children, but once we’d had them for a while, we wanted more….a terrible extravagance we could in no way afford, but we did it anyway.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

“My mother had modeled for me early on that the quickest route to unhappiness was to pay too much attention to anyone’s disapproval, particularly someone that you barely knew.”
― Laura Dave, The Night We Lost Him

“People who care about each other don’t hurt each other or make each other feel small.”
― Lisa McMann, Island of Fire