Shawna Thompson

“That's how wars start. One side protects itself, so the other side has to protect itself even more, and then we start swapping our own fear with their threats. And then we start firing at each other.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“He had learned that having someone to care for was the same as being cared for by someone else.”
― Ballard, J G

“You could drown in two inches of water. Maybe grief was the same.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“Each had taken up the truths they had trained themselves to see, drinking anger and hate or loneliness and despair as eagerly as the summer-parched prairie drank the rain. I ain’t fool enough to think I’m wise, exactly, but I have learned one scrap of wisdom, at least: whatever a body expects their life to be, that’s what they’ll make of it in the end.”
― Olivia Hawker, One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow