Julia

“You're Christian Shu. Do you always believe in God?

Yeah, of course. Got To.

Why?

Because, she says. I can't carry on living believing human beings are as good as it gets. She looks at me.

We're the worst.”
― Jessica George, Maame

“Beyond that, memories have a way of changing on us. Souring or sweetening over time—like a brew we drink, then recreate later by taste, only getting the ingredients mostly right. You can’t taste a memory without tainting it with who you have become.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“we are all beautiful even as we are all part of the problem, and that to be a part of the problem is to be human”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“The things we do to avoid difficult things are often worse than the difficult thing.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Last Night