Pamela

“And is love more than the sum of its parts? If you lose all the parts of yourself that someone fell in love with, will they still love you?  Is there a love that says simply I love you because you exist?”
― Gracie Ruth Mitchell, Juniper Bean Resorts to Murder

“The reason this kind of neighborhood is the American dream is not that it’s fancy or aesthetically pleasing or whatever. Human beings like those things, but what we really crave is stability. We want to go to bed at night and know that things will still be okay when we wake up. We want to rest easy. And that’s the feeling a white picket fence gives off: safety. Stability.”
― Gracie Ruth Mitchell, Juniper Bean Resorts to Murder

“Little. Don't ever let someone call your life, your dreams, little. Hear me?”
― Jason Reynolds, Ghost

“If you ever believe anything I say, Isolde Gilbert, please believe this: You are a remarkable human being. You are the flash of a bluebird’s wing in winter that steals my breath.” He said the words gruffly, fiercely, as if he resented having to draw them from his lungs. “You are draped in bravery and grace. No pampered English miss would have donned a selkie’s skin and saved my hide yesterday. And instead of crumbling under the unknown of our current situation, you made soup from lentils and kneaded”
― Nichole Van, A Heart Sufficient