E Harris

“You must be careful with that, Roos. It’s a dangerous thing, to try and give someone everything. One day, you might find you’ve given away things you should’ve kept. Some parts of us must remain inviolate if we are to survive as a person.”
― Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

“People get very angry when police officers are accused of a crime, but that anger is often displaced toward the accuser or the victim. The conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience is well documented.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“To survive you need to learn to hold contradictory things in your head at the same time. I am going to die; I am going to live. There is nothing to fear; be wary of everything.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, I Am Still Alive

“even if things after the great influenza of 1918 never did go back to what people back then thought of as “normal,” they didn’t get worse . . . At least until a few years later, when World War II started.”
― Meg Cabot, The Quarantine Princess Diaries