Heather

“That’s how wars start. One side protects itself, so the other side has to protect itself even more, and then we start swapping our own fear with their threats. And then we start firing at each other.” The coffee cup hits the wall at that. “SHE’S MY FUCKING CHILD!” Her colleague closes her eyes. They’re spaced far apart. “Maybe that’s when you really need to know the difference between vengeance and justice.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“You don't know that I know that the hidden truth you think you discovered was invented by my sources when your rage was still just an unarticulated irritation flickering in the back of your mind.”
― Elle Reeve, Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

“Bravery is being unafraid of something other people are afraid of. Courage is being afraid, but strong enough to do it anyway.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“And they don’t have any female friends, and there are no women’s teams here, so they learn that hockey only belongs to them, and their coaches teach them that girls are a “distraction.” So they learn that girls only exist for fucking. She wants to point out how all the old men in this town praise them for “fighting” and “not backing down,” but not one single person tells them that when a girl says no, it means NO. And the problem with this town is not only that a boy raped a girl, but that everyone is pretending that he DIDN’T do it. So now all the other boys will think that what he did was okay. Because no one cares.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown