Eileen

“Knowing how to love life is a necessity, Takeshi, and she needs to learn to trust people. Not to hate them, there’s no way out of hate.”
― Laura Imai Messina, The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World

“As his father made painfully clear that night, to deface the pages of a book was to adopt the manner of a Visigoth. It was to strike a blow against that most sacred and noble of man’s achievements—the ability to set down his finest ideas and sentiments so that they might be shared through the ages.”
― Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway

“Most of the time, I’m kind of numb,” she replied. “You know, I think every mom out there can relate to the fact of how long it takes to create a baby, those nine months that you watch every ultrasound and every heartbeat. And it takes nine months to create a human being, and it takes seconds for an AR-15 to take that away from the surface of this Earth. And it wasn’t just my son. It was 25 other souls that left this Earth that day because that weapon fell into the hands of a tormented soul. And that haunts me.”
― Elizabeth Williamson, Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth

“She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed was her love for Chacko was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things