Susan's Reviews

“So is setting an example for your niece about how she doesn’t need to turn herself inside out to be loved. How she doesn’t need to set herself on fire to keep someone else warm. Demanding to have your own needs met isn’t problematic—it’s heroic, and kids are watching. They’re always watching. If you set an example that tells her the only way she’s worthy of love is by giving everyone everything, she’ll internalize that message.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“Evenings I sit in the hostel kitchen, writing, with a pot of strong tea and a candle for comfort. The immense quiet is broken only by those snaps and creaks that inhabit old houses. I am partial to old things: old peeling doors, rusty gates, overgrown paths. Old things know how to relinquish the past; they have learned how to make peace. — Janice D. Soderling, from “Vanitas,” Literary Bohemian (No. 1, November 2008)”
― Janice D. Soderling

“not to be devastated by my mistake, but instead to be motivated. He spoke to me with the quality one often encounters in truly wise people—forgiveness.”
― Prince Harry, Spare

“On Greyvyn Mountain, which is actually a volcano, quite high up, there grows a very rare form of blue narcissus flower. Bees take the nectar, and the honey they make from it has what is said to be magical healing properties”
― Jill Yielder, Through the Labyrinth