Joyanne

“For a while, in that room, my past and present were together and getting along just fine.”
― Cassie Chambers, Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains

“He said, “I think at various times in life we’re either more or less true to who we really are.”
― Rebecca Kauffman, The Gunners

“I can't stand just sitting here not doing anything. You can't solve a problem by remote control.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“There was always that other feeling, crouched and waiting nearby in the shadows, even at a moment like this, even when he was on the brink of the most beautiful thing he would ever see in his life. It was the low tide. The sacred, empty void after the birds had taken flight. The tangled thing that tugged on Mikey, kept him sewn up inside himself, made happiness hard. Mikey didn’t yet have words for this feeling, but already at this young age, he understood that it would never leave him entirely—nature had put it in his heart, and there it would always remain, even when he thought he was in the clear, even when he thought he had left it behind.”
― Rebecca Kauffman, The Gunners