They’d have people out looking for her, and nothing makes grown-ups quite so mad as finding a child safe when they’d been scared silly that they might find that child dead.

~ Jenny Wingfield

Jenny Wingfield Childhood Fear Parenting

I think maybe miracles are something everybody has to find out about for themselves. Telling them about it doesn’t make them believe. It just makes them think you’re crazy as a bessie bug.

~ Jenny Wingfield

Jenny Wingfield Belief Miracles

Willadee asked him if he thought maybe it should say HAPPY EVER AFTER, but Samuel said no, he thought happiness was like any other miracle. The more you talked about it, the less people believed it was real. It was like Swan said, some things, everybody just had to find out about for themselves.

~ Jenny Wingfield

Jenny Wingfield Belief Happiness

She was the most alone person he had ever met - so intent on staying forever breathtaking that she could never let any of life's glories take her own breath away.

~ Jenny Wingfield

Jenny Wingfield Vanity