"I stand in the hallway and listen to her and Etta laughing and realize that maybe my daughter did miss out on a big family life as an only child, but what she got instead was just as valuable.
How many girls have an honorary aunt like Iva Lou?
Sometimes what we don't get in life makes way for something even better."
-from Milk Glass Moon, A Big Stone Gap Novel, by Adriana Trigiani, p. 162
(Did I mention previously that her series are delightfully addicting?)
"You just have to live, Ave, and let life unfold. Say what you mean.
You can't always think about what you've lost, or what you don't have, or what you didn't get. Because when you do that, you're missing out on the now...
We shouldn't let a day go by when we don't stop and think about what we are to each other and how the best part of that is the part that changes.
That's the mystery.
And that's the part of people that's divine. Accepting the unknown and trusting it."
-Jack in Home To Big Stone Gap, A Big Stone Gap Novel, p 162, by Adriana Trigiani
