Stefanie

“Why’d you have to go and say that?” Shotty asked. “Now I might look forward to seeing you.” At the time she just thought it was a clever comeback from a clever old man, but on her drive home, she heard the sadness in it, the sadness of a world where the people who cared for him were swapped out like baseball cards, the peril of attachment in a world of dependence, and the fatigue of anticipation, anywhere.”
― J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota

“Don’t let them put words in your mouth. God gave you a brain. You don’t need theirs.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“Should is a dangerous word, a warning sign that we’re crossing an important boundary and veering into book bossiness. Should is tangled up with guilt, frustration, and regret; we use it all the time, many of us to speak of the ways we wish we could be more, do more, or just be different. Or that we wish our friends could be different, and they would if they knew what was good for them.

Should is bossy.”
― Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

“It’s in the small moments that life is truly lived.”
― Marion Roach Smith, The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life