Anya

“If I do find out the Secret,I won't be able to tell it to you-you know that right?And that doesn't mean I don't trust you.It's just because I can't.Sometimes even best friends have to keep secrets from each other."

-Cass”
― Pseudonymous Bosch, This Book Is Not Good for You

“Perhaps the ache of homesickness was a fair price to pay for having so many good people in her life.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

“My father says you remember the smell of your country no matter where you are but only recognize it when you're far away.”
― Aglaja Veteranyi, Warum das Kind in der Polenta kocht

“A man's strength was supposed to be against the outside world: to fight it back from himself and those he took under his protection: his wife, his children, and for a man strong enough, more people still, people like his employees. To turn it inward, against the very people you had been given that strength to protect, because you couldn't deal with the outward fight, was the ultimate weakness.”
― Laura Florand, The Chocolate Touch