There was always some germ of joy, some little paramecium of happiness wriggling around, waiting for a chance to get out.
Leigh NewmanThe minute I landed back in Alaska, it was back to hip boots and fish guts. This cultural flipping wasn't easy - especially on top of the post-divorce fighting that was still going on between my parents. But this is why you don't write a memoir at age fourteen.
Leigh NewmanWhile you can't keep your heart from getting broken, you can stop breaking your own heart...once you realize the difference between what you can control and what you can't, and that it's far, far more fun to lavish all that attention on your own self-worth.
Leigh NewmanThere's a kind of intimacy that happens between a mother and an only child. Which only gets more intimate when it's between a mother and only daughter.
Leigh Newman