“As she looked me up and down, I felt like a daughter returning from summer camp to a mother who had worried unnecessarily. Except instead of summer camp it had been my entire adolescence, emancipation, homelessness, and single parenthood, and I couldn't rightly say that Elizabeth's worry had been unwarranted” Vanessa DiffenbaughThe Language Of FlowersChapter 6Part 4Page 379 Book:The Language of Flowers Source: The Language of Flowers
“It wasn't like America, where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time. We hadn't learned yet, there was not such thing as an empty canvas.” AmericaWhite OleanderJanet FitchPage 379Chapter 32 Book:White Oleander Source: White Oleander