Bethany

“sometimes you don’t appreciate your own blessings until you see the envy in someone else.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“There was no changing Mark, or Jinx, or Cheyanne, or how the world worked. They were like chess pieces; they moved how the moved. If you wanted to win, you couldn't dwell on how you wished they would move, or how it would be fairer if they moved a different way. You had to adapt.”
― Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

“May was like the Friday night of summer: all the good times lying ahead of you, bright and shiny and waiting to be lived.”
― Lisa Jewell, Then She Was Gone

“Suddenly, they're incredibly proud, but they're proud of the accomplishment, not of the work. So you feel like you have to keep accomplishing, instead of just creating. It affirms the idea that the value in what you do is how people react to it, and not just in the making of it.”
― Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life