Daughters for a Time Quotes

“Maybe heartache was more normal than the absence of it.”
― Jennifer Handford, Daughters for a Time

“In so many ways,” I tried to explain. “I feel repaired. The old wounds feel repaired, anyway. As if what was taken has been returned. I don’t get to be my mother’s daughter ever again. But I get to be a mother”
― Jennifer Handford, Daughters for a Time

“swallowing a spoonful of butternut squash soup, feeling it coat my throat and slide down to my belly.”
― Jennifer Handford, Daughters for a Time

“I was once a daughter. We all were—Sam, Claire, me. We just didn’t know that it wasn’t forever, that we were only daughters for a time.”
― Jennifer Handford, Daughters for a Time