Jeanelle Solwold

“One day when I was fourteen, I told Charlie that I hated Mother. “Don’t hate her, Jo,” he told me. “Feel sorry for her. She’s not near as smart as you. She wasn’t born with your compass, so she wanders around, bumping into all sorts of walls. That’s sad.” I understood what he meant, and it made me see Mother differently. But wasn’t there some sort of rule that said parents had to be smarter than their kids? It didn’t seem fair.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.”
― John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

“To whomever swapped my tattoo cream for toothpaste........ well played.”
― R.D. Ronald

“It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular, disciplined practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it out.”
― Ann Patchett, The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life