Natasha

“His [Pa's] words had tossed the book that was her [Nell's] life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story. She found she couldn't look at her little sisters without seeing her own foreignness, and yet she couldn't tell them the truth. To have done so would've destroyed something in which they believed implicitly. Nell had figured it was better they thought her strange than knew her to be a stranger.”
― Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden

“You will be confronted with questions every day that test your morals. The questions will get tougher, and the consequences will become more severe. Think carefully, and for your sake, do the right thing, not the easy thing." -Kenneth Lay before the Enron Scandal”
― William A. Gentry, Be the Boss Everyone Wants to Work For: A Guide for New Leaders

“in a world full of people who seem to know everything, passionately, based on little (often slanted) information, where certainty is often mistaken for power, what a relief is to be in the company of someone confident enough to stay unsure (that is, perpetually curious).”
― George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

“We want to believe that love is singular and exclusive, and it unnerves us to think that it might actually be renewable and somewhat repetitive in its habits.”
― George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain