Books and thoughts

“I think I like wildflowers best," I explain. "They just grow wherever they want. No one has to plant them. And then their seeds blow in the wind and they find a new place to grow." (Richelle)”
― Rebecca Donovan, What If

“We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.”
― Kavita N. Ramdas

“She wanted Azuka to learn the ways of these foreigners, since people ruled over others not because they were better people but because they had better guns;”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck

“Marry the man who’s going to walk with you through the next fifty or sixty years. Open doors, hold your hand, make your coffee, rub lotion on the cracks of your feet, put you up on a pedestal where you belong. Is he marrying your face and your bottle-blond hair, or will he love you when you look like whoever you’re going to look like in fifty years?”
― Charles Martin, The Mountain Between Us