Jodie

“Now, you listen to me. First of all, there is no normal. Anyone trying to sell you on normal is also trying to sell you on abnormal, and that’s a load of shit. Just a bunch of boring people trying to make exceptional people as boring as they are.”
― Barry Eisler, The Killer Collective

“The important thing is to make a decision,” he said. “Make what decision?” “One that will enable you to live in the present instead of constantly wondering what the future will be like.”
― Marc Levy, P.S. from Paris

“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