Kylie Hood

“it’s not about comparison, as my counselor used to say. My pain is my pain.”
― Barbara O'Neal, When We Believed in Mermaids

“On the day of the hunt I came to know in the slick center of my bones this one thing: all animals kill to survive, and we are animals. The lion kills the baboon, the baboon kills fat grasshoppers. The elephant tears up living trees, draffing their precious roots from the dirt they love. The hungry antelope's shadow passes over the startled grass. And we, even if we had no meat or even grass to gnaw still boil our water to kill the invisible creatures that would like to kill us first. ...The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep”
― Barbara Kingsolver

“You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But if there was one thing she'd learned in the past few weeks, it was that sometimes, when you're really lucky, yo umeet someone with a map.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper

“Don't just live, but live for a purpose bigger than yourself. Be an asset to your family, community, and country.”
― Mark Owen, No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden