Jodie

“Some men showed off their testosterone with the grip of their handshake, and others with their Sumatran dark roast.”
― Brian Freeman, The Crooked Street

“But my sister was tofu. Absorbing the characteristics of whoever has managed to capture her attention at that point in her life, assimilating herself and becoming what they want her to become because it makes them like her better.”
― Minka Kent, The Thinnest Air

“The point is: no parent can live their child’s life for them, but that doesn’t keep us from the worry and heartache of seeing you unhappy. Sometimes that can even push us to action, to try and show you the way. Sometimes it’s better to be wrong and tactless as a result of loving you too much than to sit idly by and watch you suffer.”
― Marc Levy, All Those Things We Never Said

“for your light will not die even when you are dead. The righteous man departs, but his light remains. Men are always saved after the death of the deliverer. Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov