Jodi

“Charlotte read the preprinted slip. Redeemed. $1,000. She whirled around. “Wait, sir, excuse me, but how did you know . . .” But he was gone. Along with the crowd and the hum of voices. Charlotte stood completely alone except for the battered trunk and the glittering swirl in the air.”
― Rachel Hauck, The Wedding Dress

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“Sometimes you have to take control of your own life and reinvent yourself in order to be happy.”
― Danielle Stewart, Flowers in the Snow

“The river had an awful look, the buildings on the banks were muffled in black shrouds, and the reflected lights seemed to originate deep in the water, as if the spectres of suicides were holding them to show where they went down. The wild moon and clouds were as restless as an evil conscience in a tumbled bed, and the very shadow of the immensity of London seemed to lie oppressively upon the water.’ Charles Dickens, Night Walks”
― Kate Rhodes, The Girl in the River