Elizabeth

“We can hide in a cupboard under the stairs our whole life and it’ll still find us. Death will show up wearing an invisible cloak and it will wave a magic wand and whisk us away when we least expect it.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“That’s the lot of being a parent: at first all activities are done for their sake, and in the end for ours. Eventually we realize that everything is about us wanting to be wherever they are, as much as possible, for as long as they let us.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“It still hurt like a Texan’s butthole after a chili-eating contest, but the blood had stopped pouring. She’d mend.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Dating

“At a party a few months ago one guy asked Maya why she never drank more than one or two glasses of wine, and what could she say? Because of guys like you. Because you’re everywhere.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners