Natalie Davey’s Reviews > The Bright Years > Status Update

“There is goodness ahead of you. I know this because I know you. You don't hide from pain or from play. Your joy is obstinate, yet you are brave enough to break. You have open eyes and an open heart—a rare combination in a world where one of those usually closes the other.
You are your mother's daughter, who is her mother's daughter. You are, and you will always be, radiant.”

“We begin to say goodbye as soon as we say hello. Death is a corollary of birth, and to welcome life is to guarantee loss.”

“Keeping a child is like keeping the sky—always with me but never mine.”