7 Quotes by Jessica Strawser

Becoming a mother had been many things--often indescribably rewarding, occasionally stupefying, sometimes even terrifying in the intensity of the love she felt for someone so small and vulnerable and dependent upon her--but relaxing was not one of them.

That first night, as they admired how wide the sky stretched above and beyond them, how bright the stars were here, how they could actually see the haze of the Milky Way cut its swath across the sky, Finn lowered his eyes to hers, and she saw something there that she only then realized she hadn’t seen from him before: hope. “Maybe nothing has to be as complicated as we make it,” he said. “Maybe life really is this simple.

It was just that it was so hard to turn away from the kind of love that is so eager to find you.

Moms didn’t get much respect when they dedicated themselves full-time to doing it well, but if anything went wrong – even twenty-five, fifty years later – they were always the first ones blamed. Sometimes by the kids themselves.

There was a fine line, it turned out, between being a dreamer and being a loner.

But still, I think it’s important for you to know that you can be happy on your own.

It was never all that hard to rationalize your way through doing something wrong when it was a way to get what you wanted. She.