Claire

“Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people, William,”
― Laura Greenwood, Fangs For Nothing

“For I am a little girl when they want to belittle me, a woman when they want me to bear a child.”
― Joy McCullough, Blood Water Paint

“I take a length of cloth and hold it to my head - a wedding veil. I do not regret the days of make-believe, but for every time I played at bride I should have played at goddess, river, warrior queen”
― Joy McCullough, Blood Water Paint

“You have the power within you to endure anything, for your mere opinion can render it tolerable, perhaps even acceptable, by regarding it as an opportunity for enlightenment or a matter of duty.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations