Sarah

“We live in snow globes, don’t we? Pick them up, shake them, years swirl about us and settle.”
― James Sallis, Sarah Jane

“I can feel the printed words seeping through my skin and into my veins, rushing to my heart and marking it forever. I want to savor this wonder, this happening of loving a book and reading it for the first time, because the first time is always the best, and I will never read this book for the first time ever again.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“I’ve loved him my whole life, and somewhere along the way, that love didn’t change but grew. It grew to fill the parts of me that I did not have when I was a child. It grew with every new longing in my body and desire in my heart until there was not a piece of me that did not love him. And when I look at him, there is no other feeling in me.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“but if there’s one thing I’ve learned since then, it’s that no one is more judgmental of mothers than other mothers.”
― Mandy McHugh, Chloe Cates Is Missing