Summer

“Children are the products of an environment over which they have no real control—passengers through narrow pathways in a world they never made.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“At times I think of human relationships as something soft like sand or water, and by pouring them into particular vessels we give them shape.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“This promise to myself felt like throwing buckets of water on the only fire that was left in me, the only part that dared to dream.”
― Stephanie Land, Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

“I know that it's not the life you imagined for me, Alice—buying a house and having children with a boy I grew up with. It's not the life I used to imagine for myself either. But it's the life I have, the only one. And as I write you this message I'm very happy. All my love.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You