Ada

“And so when they tell you that I was heartless, a shameless man-chaser, don’t ever forget this: I loved what I saw. And yes, it is true that I’ve done all the things they say. That’s not what gets them. What aggravates them is I’ve never shed one solitary tear. I’m not sorry. That’s unnatural. As we all know, a woman is supposed to cry.”
― Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine

“Everything is changing. It has to. You can’t stop time. All you can do is point yourself in a direction and hope the wind will let you get there.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“A housing inspector does not make the repairs on the building he had examined. It is for the owners, meaning each of us, to correct the ruptures we have inherited.
The fact is that the bottom cate, though it bears much of the burden of the hierarchy, did not create the caste system, and the bottom caste alone cannot fix it.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“Every other piece of news in those past months had changed things, and never for the better, so I told myself that even deafening silence was preferable to noise if the noise always ended in grief.”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Things We Cannot Say