Summer

“A time like that comes for every man, when he chooses what sort of man he wants to be. And if you don't know the story, you don't know the man.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“She holds her head as high as if she were beautiful, and holds her body as if she were strong.”
― Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White

“At its best, this is my calling. At its worst, it is a mad compulsion that I just can’t shake.”
― Zoe Klein

“I will never understand it,” she said. “We’re the top of our food chain, so you’d think we’d relate to those guys the best. Seems like we’d be trying to talk them into trade agreements.” Eddie laughed at that. “So you’re telling me that as a kid, you were rooting for the wolf to eat the Riding Hood babe?” “My last name was Wolfe. I took it all kind of personally.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer