2 Quotes by P. Carey Reid

She seems very calm, but that bothers me all the more. I’m horrified that she might be accepting of a life that relegates her to empty corner tables, that my daughter might be making do with a minimum of joy.

When your own father never, ever laughs at you, not even when your little twisted movements are unbearably cute, when there’s never a little hidden snicker at the edge of his lips after you risk a question that exposes the very marrow of your soul, then perhaps certain spiritual muscles within you are given a chance to develop, and sometimes to a point where no one can overpower them.