Sheri Ackerman

“To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible. He stands over your shoulder repeating one thing, incessantly: “Get it done, get it done.” So you work harder. You get the job done. The boss, however, does not thank you. He asks for more.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Kindness is not the same as niceness, or putting our heads in the sand, or avoiding conflict. It is acknowledging that no life is as it seems on the surface. It is understanding that we never know all the layers in a life, and choosing to speak and act from that difficult gray place in all of us.”
― Kerry Egan, On Living

“She was unmoored and her memories were eroding in the sunlight,”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal

“He remained shrouded in his uniform as the graying light arm-wrestled the sky.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief