Sheryl

“Our presence in the White House had been celebrated by millions of Americans, but it also contributed to a reactionary sense of fear and resentment among others. The hatred was old and deep and as dangerous as ever.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Confidence, I’d learned then, sometimes needs to be called from within. I’ve repeated the same words to myself many times now, through many claims.

Am I good enough? Yes I am.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Do you know what the worst thing about being a parent is? That you're always judged by your worst moments. You can do a million things right, but if you do one single thing wrong you're forever that parent who was checking his phone in the park when your child was hit in the head by a swing. We don't take our eyes off them for days at a time, but then you read just one text message and it's as if all your best moments never happened. No one goes to see a psychologist to talk about all the times they weren't hit in the head by a swing as a child. Parents are defined by their mistakes.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“It was a hot summer’s day, the carp ponds so still the dragonflies seemed mesmerized by their own reflections on the water.”
― Tan Twan Eng