Allow yourself to experience fully every step of the journey, both the joy and the pain. You're alive. Greet the moment at hand with a grateful heart. — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
“But Rose learned an important lesson: people don't always do what you tell them to do.” — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
“She remembered one of her boyfriends asking, offhandedly, how many books she read in a year. "A few hundred," she said. "How do you… — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
“Instead, we'd do what we always did, the only thing we'd ever been dependably stellar at: we'd read.” — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
“Here's one of the problems with communicating in the words of a man who is not around to explain himself: it's damn hard sometimes… — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
“Yes, you'd make a great partner for him. What with the embezzling and the adultery and the drinking. That's what every man wants in… — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
“This conversation, you will not be surprised to know, was the impetus for their breakup, given that it caused her to realize the emotion that she had thought was her not liking him very much was, in fact, her not liking him at all. Because despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was… — Eleanor Brown Copy Share
“We don't just come from the womb bearing our talents. They grow from all the things we learn.” — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
“Despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was not a reader, and, well, let's just say that… — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
“And the baby would never know what it meant to hate Barnwell so deeply that she couldn't help but return to it.” — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
