Parents Quote by Jennifer E. Smith

“My world has changed so much. Everything around me has perceptibly shifted in a direction I hadn’t seen coming. The people around me, the…

— Cacey Hopper

“All my life I had known one thing for sure about myself, and that was that my life would never be her life. I…

— Anna Quindlen

“All my life I had wanted to travel but what I discovered that year was that the things that you find out become the…

— Polly Horvath

“Perhaps we only leave So we may once again arrive, To get a bird's eye view Of what it means to be alive. For…

— Erin Hanson

“That you traveled as far away from this place as you possibly could, only to find yourself back, and it’s all concertinaed down to…

— Loreth Anne White

“I lived for so long without you, only dreaming of the concept of you. And, now that I know you, I can't imagine going…

— Liz Newman

“And there remains people in your life that you remember, wishing if, either, they stayed longer or never came in the first place.”

— Sarah Adel

“I could tell you of occasionally, every eon, meeting a person, with whom I might stay for a billion years. But what of it?…

— Steven L. Peck

“...you suddenly realise that every chance of being the person you really wanted to be, is gone for ever, and the one you were,…

— Per Petterson

“I could slip quietly out into the world and never be seen again. But life is never like that, is it? Things keep happening…

— Ally Kennen

“Isn't that how it always seems to work? One day you wake up, look around and wonder, Where am I? Whose life am I…

— Christi Paul

“I realized that my time in this place had come to an end; now that my schooldays were over, I no longer belonged here.…

— Peter Ackroyd