Rachel Gorham

“You keep swimming, my beautiful friend. You keep your head above the water for as long as you can.”
― Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed

“If you took everyone with mental-health issues out of this place they’d have to shut it down. Most people in here were, one way or another, just taking another step in a life of chaos, pulled by the tides of a world that neither wanted them nor needed them. Very few people in here were like Connie. Just plain bad.”
― Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed

“I had known it would happen from the first time I held her: from that moment on, all her growing would be away from me. It is the fundamental unfairness of parenthood that if we do our jobs well, the deepest bond we are given will walk out the door with a wave over the shoulder.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

“Ron is aware that we live in a bright new world of sexual politics. A rainbow of gender and sexuality, and freedoms unimagined by his generation. Ron is all for it. If you let people be themselves, you let them flourish.”
― Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed