“Don't you see?" she says. "I want your life to be better than mine. That's all any parent wants.” — Katie Crouch Copy Share Image
“And then there's the truth beyond that, sitting like an old rock under green creek water: none of these things matter. Right now, in this moment, we have love. We have it in the sound of my daughter's laugher, in… — Katie Crouch Copy Share Image
“These, of course, are not the preppy boys we go to school with; these are the dirt-in-the-cracks-of-the-hands kind of boys, farmhands and fishermen who,… — Katie Crouch Copy Share Image
“It's important to love someone." "Even if you can't have that person?" "I think caring for someone is never a bad thing, even if… — Katie Crouch Copy Share Image
“Alex," Madison says through clenched teeth, "if you keep talking in bumper stickers, I am going to stab you in the face.” — Katie Crouch Copy Share Image
“You're going to have to go beyond yourself to keep him. That's a tiring thing.” — Katie Crouch Copy Share Image
“Because I can tell you with authority: there is no better place to be at twenty-one than in the backseat of a car, driving… — Katie Crouch Copy Share Image
“Don't you see?" she says. "I want your life to be better than mine. That's all any parent wants.” — Katie Crouch Copy Share Image
“And then there's the truth beyond that, sitting like an old rock under green creek water: none of these things matter. Right now, in… — Katie Crouch Copy Share Image
“Without a bellyful of liquor, all I am is a woman who cracks stupid jokes to make up for being shy.” — Katie Crouch Copy Share Image
“He doesn't bother to talk, and I don't either, but we look. We stare. And for a moment, I am sure of everything. For… — Katie Crouch Copy Share Image
