Jennifer Handford Quotes

My father was a romantic who believed in kismet, who trusted there were no accidents, that every person we encountered was sent to us for a reason.

Your mother was a saint, if there ever was one. She's smiling on you today, you know that, right?" "I know." "Boy did she love you." "I wish I felt like I knew her," I said, like I always said. "Know yourself, and you'll know her," Dad said, another one of his famous sayings. "You're a lot like her.

In so many ways," I tried to explain. "I feel repaired. The old wounds feel repaired, anyway. As if what was taken has been returned. I don't get to be my mother's daughter ever again. But I get to be a mother

Neruda poem that talked about 'the light of hidden flowers.' It's easy to believe in people when they have it all together on the outside. It's way cooler to believe in them when what they have is still a little buried.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

You've gotta believe that the split second that changed your life - the brief moment that took your leg and bruised your melon - can't be the defining moment of your life. It was just an instant, a flash. Just one second out of millions of seconds. It doesn't get to own you.

So long as I was pursuing my passion, I would always find courage. I would be restored. My history of silence didn't have to be my future.

I was once a daughter. We all were - Sam, Claire, me. We just didn't know that it wasn't forever, that we were only daughters for a time.

swallowing a spoonful of butternut squash soup, feeling it coat my throat and slide down to my belly.

Maybe heartache was more normal than the absence of it.