Mariya Kemper

“But if the past few weeks had shown me anything at all, it was that our world was far from perfect. And greed, corruption, and scheming were often rewarded over virtue.”
― Sara Goodman Confino, Behind Every Good Man

“We are imperfect people made that way by an imperfect world, and we don’t always get a say in what shapes us.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“Mothers are complicated. You grow up thinking you know who they are. And then something happens and you realize they have all these layers, pieces of themselves you didn’t know were there—because they’ve been carrying around stuff you knew nothing about. But maybe it goes the other way too. Maybe mothers don’t always see their children as they really are.”
― Barbara Davis, Every Precious and Fragile Thing

“And I think to myself, wouldn’t it be so lovely if we viewed ourselves through the same lens as the people who love us?”
― Jessa Hastings, The Conditions of Will