Bailey Richardson

“No, lad, it no be the treasure that makes for seeing the world. If you find yourself a fistful of gold, or some dead king’s jewels, all well and good, but it be the strangeness you see that pulls you to the next horizon.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“One person after another came up and said his mother was at peace. His mother's friends: each with her own peculiar spiked or curled white hairdos, like a dahlia show. She is in a better place. So glad she went peacefully. And when the last had gone by, he could feel Freddy's breath on his ear as he whispered: "The way your mother died was awful.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less

“Name a day, name an hour, in which Arthur Less was not afraid. Of ordering a cocktail, taking a taxi, teaching a class, writing a book. Afraid of these and almost everything else in the world. Strange, though; because he is afraid of everything, nothing is harder than anything else. Taking a trip around the world is no more terrifying than buying a stick of gum. The daily dose of courage.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less

“The very finest thing you can give a child is somewhere to belong. The biggest thing you can have is being part of something.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners