Nona Williams

“It’s strange how you give the people you love so much power over you, I had written in my journal. But Shawn had more power over me than I could possibly have imagined. He had defined me to myself, and there’s no greater power than that.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“The president’s thoughts were frenetic. It’s a disconcerting experience to attempt a conversation with him because he talks the whole time. He asks questions but then immediately starts to say something else. Almost everything he says he subsequently rephrases two or three times, as if he’s stuck in some holding pattern waiting for an impulse to arrive that kicks off the next thing he wants to say. It all adds up to a bizarre encounter.”
― Andrew G. McCabe, The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
― Blake Crouch, Wayward

“that every bodily pain has its source in the soul, every pain is an expression of distress.”
― Anat Talshir, About the Night