April Rodea

“As we count up the memories from one journey, we head off on another. Remembering those who went ahead. Remembering those who will follow after. And someday, we will meet all those people again, out beyond the horizon.”
― Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles

“Everything was real, not perfect. And yet that's what had made it so perfect.”
― Sarah Winman, Tin Man

“Scars. A sign that you had been hurt. A sign that you had healed.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“this was indeed some crazy world, where the waiting period to get an abortion was longer than the waiting period to get a gun.”
― Jodi Picoult, A Spark of Light