“They succeeded, not because the system worked, but because the family had a relative who was able to help. A community who reached out.” — Shelley Noble Copy Share Image
“Alice meant well. Always attempting to make the glass seem half full but invariably making it practically empty.” — Shelley Noble Copy Share Image
“Thousands, millions of stars hung fragilely in space, as if a breath could shake them loose and set them falling toward earth. And she… — Shelley Noble Copy Share Image
“Now I know how Michelangelo felt. Only he ended up with the Sistine Chapel and I got a sooty ceiling in a minor mansion… — Shelley Noble Copy Share Image
“I’ve been around for a long time, seen lots of places, and the one thing I learned was that it sometimes takes a village,… — Shelley Noble Copy Share Image
“This was crazy. Celeste had merely said her relatives would love to have her stay with them, they had plenty of room. She hadn’t said that they could have housed a large portion of the Confederate army. Well, she’d stay one night and if things didn’t work out, she’d seen an inn in the little town they’d just driven through.… — Shelley Noble Copy Share
“cranky. Sarah took the time to work on an old pocket watch that had been wound so tight that the mainspring had broken. Wyatt’s… — Shelley Noble Copy Share Image
“Bailey’s eyes rolled upward. “The man ran a merry-go-round in a backwater town. Get over it.” — Shelley Noble Copy Share Image
