Julia

“Happiness as an act of defiance. A revolutionary act.”
― Louise Penny, A World of Curiosities

“I believe what I believe to make life less terrifying. That’s all beliefs are: stories we tell ourselves to stop being afraid.”
― Adrian J. Walker, The End of the World Running Club

“So I don’t really worry about the young, whose excesses are confined to lecture halls and quadrangles, so much as I fear the old, whose tyrannies are legislative.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

“You would think this realization would come as a relief to him. And it did, in part. He felt a rush of love for his whole family, whom it seemed he had underestimated. He had thought that guarding his secret was a kindness to them; he was protecting them from knowledge that would hurt them. But now he saw that not telling them had been more hurtful, and it was they who had been kind.”
― Anne Tyler, French Braid