Jennie

“As soon as Kirsty walked into the living room, just behind Jamie, she knew something was wrong. There were no immediate tangible signs, but she could feel it. The atmosphere in the room felt wrong. There had been a shift in the air, a strange shape imprinted on the molecules that hung around them and made up the fabric of the room. She could smell it, this unwelcome odour. She felt like an animal, its hackles rising as it caught the scent of a stranger, an invader, an enemy encroaching on its territory.”
― Mark Edwards, The Magpies

“I was a terrible believer in things, but I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. I was as searching as I was skeptical.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“See, this is why I was by myself all those years. Because as soon as you let people in, they start depending on you. And then, if you can’t be everything they think you should be, you’ve let them down. It’s easier not to have anybody around at all.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Don't Let Me Go

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi