Miranda

“She was my shelter and my storm.”
― Arundhati Roy, Mother Mary Comes to Me

“As long as she actively imagined the scenario, it would not come to pass. This was a little game she often played with herself. If she wondered whether an outfit would be her last, it wouldn't be. If she pictured herself dying today, she wouldn't. It was a silly superstition, but really what were the odds that something terrible would happen when you expected it to? Very low indeed. Nobody ever said, “My wife died today, as expected," or "I was in a terrible accident, as I predicted.”
― Virginia Feito, Mrs. March

“Humans. For the most part, you are dull and blundering. But occasionally, you can be remarkably bright creatures.”
― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

“Because what good was life without books? Books were our gateway to eternity, our bridges from past to future, from pain to joy.”
― Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, The Orchard