Livia

“Apprehension is the mother of our mistakes, and tries to warn us before we make them, but we don’t always listen to our mothers.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“While I can identify and sometimes fix structural maladies within that organ, I do not remotely understand it. That is an impossible task, like trying to guess the path rainwater will take down a windowpane. There is simply no way to know with any accuracy what is happening inside someone else’s head. I only faintly comprehend what is going on inside my own.”
― Craig Davidson, The Saturday Night Ghost Club

“being a woman, I know that I must do my job twice as well as any man to be thought half as good.”
― Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian

“They ooze down slowly, a flow so slight as to be imperceptible, moving across time and space, until they find a crack in which to settle and coagulate. The path of an inherited trauma is random; you never know who might get it, but someone will.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees