Frannie McBrian

“That's the past, isn't it. You think it's behind you, then one day you walk into a room and it's there waiting for you.”
― Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

“Not only our experiences, but all we have done, whatever great thoughts we may have had, and all we have suffered, all this is not lost, though it is past; we have brought it into being. Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Demands for solidarity can quickly turn into demands for groupthink, making it difficult to express nuance.”
― Roxane Gay, Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business

“It’s almost painful, the way little children just trustingly hold out their hearts for you to look at - the way they haven’t learned yet how to conceal what matters to them, even if it’s just chewing gum or a plush dolphin or plastic binoculars.”
― Catherine Newman, Sandwich