Paula Halcom

“Happiness is a choice as much as anything. Or you could choose to be angry, and if you stay angry long enough, it will become comfortable, like an old robe. But eventually you'll realize that old robe is all you've got, and there isn't anything else in the wardrobe that fits. And at that point, you're just waiting to trade the robe for a shroud—or at least, that's what I've always thought.”
― Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

“Adults always think they can protect children by stopping them from going to dangerous places, but every teenager knows that's pointless, because the most dangerous place on earth is inside us. Fragile hearts break in palaces and in dark alleys alike.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“...a baby is sleeping in her mother's arms, the mother dozing in her baby's breath. Perhaps she was a different sort of person once upon a time, but now she's one of those who will always answer the phone on the first ring.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Art is what can't fit inside a person. The things that bubble over.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends