Bee

“People were cruel to you, and it didn't make you bitter. What else would you call that?"
"Naïve? Needy? Pathetic?"
"Strong," he insisted.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Enchanted Greenhouse

“We're not alike. Not really. We're separated by time and space. And yet, somehow, we're all made of dust and stars. We'd forgotten that.”
― T.J. Klune, The Bones Beneath My Skin

“The snow may fall, but the sun also rises.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“Listen to me,” Joan said. “I was circling two hundred miles above the Earth, and all I wanted was to get home and see you. Do you understand that? Do you understand that I don’t care how big or small this world is, that you are the center of mine? Do you understand that, to someone, you are everything that matters on this entire planet?”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere