Vee

“You are not defective, Brenna,” Aquila said. “You have simply been disappointed by those whom you should have been able to trust. It is a deep wound, my dear, but it is not one that cannot be healed.” That single conversation seeded her”
― Juliette Harper, The Amulet of Caorunn

“Life doesn’t give you guarantees. Some things you just can’t control and you just can’t change. You do the best you can with the hand you are dealt. You make the choices you need to so you can be happy. That’s all anyone can do, just they best they can.”
― J.A. Armstrong, Special Delivery

“That was a hard lesson that she had learned in her youth: when your past comes back to haunt you, you treat it with politeness and respect because it helped you become who you are today. Embrace the good with the bad, because one day there won’t be anything to embrace but pain if you don’t forgive and move on. Resiliency—that’s what the social worker at the orphanage called it after her fourth home in as many years. She was resilient. Maybe that made her strong. Or maybe that just made her hard. Hard and strong were two very different things. She was definitely hardened, but was she more than that? Samantha and her mother seemed to think so. She had just finished purchasing”
― Fiona Riley, Miss Match

“That’s how I chose to look at it. Value what you have.”
― Robin Alexander, Just Jorie