Stefanie

“When you look at things the same way you've always done, nothing changes. When you change perspective, everything changes.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Shore

“She would not have understood, then, that time is not linear but circular. There is no past, present, future. Roya was the woman she was today and the seventeen-year-old girl in the Stationery Shop, always. She and Bahman were one, and she and Walter were united. Kyle was her soul and Marigold would never die.”
― Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop

“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