Tia Hanson

“We sin. And yet something calls us towards perfection. Do you know why? Because we’re good for it. We have the capacity to examine our lives and improve, to change. But we can’t do it just on our own.”
― Beth Brower, The Q

“I shake my head, too overwhelmed to mourn what might never be. It’s such a singular weight—a wistful sorrow at best, the death of ten thousand promises at worst.”
― Beth Brower, The Beast of Ten

“Father has always claimed I am created from humors that favor clarity and resilience. “You’ve an instinct, Ember, to see clearly. Follow that. Don’t diminish it by fear. The resilience that twins such clear vision is a grace, for it will see you through the knocks and twists of life while your clarity leads you right. Hold to it.”
― Beth Brower, The Beast of Ten

“You’re not the usual beauty, spending all her bloom in hardly a handful of years. Some girls are like that, all flimsy flash, set to wear out into plainness as they age. But your loveliness is that of a sage. It is well set and will only increase. You’ve a steadiness of countenance worthy of the courts three hundred years ago, the courts he knew well.” She shakes her head.”
― Beth Brower, The Beast of Ten