Liesel Moultrie

“Children are a burden to a mother, but not the way a heavy box is to a mule. Our children weight hard on my heart, and thinking about them growing up honest and healthy, or just living to grow up at all, makes a load in my chest that is bigger than the safe at the bank,and more valuable to me than all the gold inside it.”
― Nancy E. Turner, These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901

“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
― H.G. Wells

“I would rather be old than a grown-up. All grown-ups are angry, it's just children and old people who laugh.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“For more than half a century they belonged to one another. She detested the same characteristics in him that last day as she had the first time she saw him under that tree, and still adored all the others.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer