Tara van Brederode

“The rules make provisions for everything, especially on occasions when one doesn’t know what to do.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“I wasn’t built to practice law. One day I made note of a New York Times article I’d read that reported widespread fatigue, stress, and unhappiness among American lawyers—most especially female ones. “How depressing,” I wrote in my journal.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“the only manuscripts in her entire career that had required no editing, “no repeat absolutely no editorial suggestions from me or anyone else,” were Wilder’s and E. B. White’s.”
― Caroline Fraser, Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

“When we do things differently, and very often we do, I remind myself that it is rarely a matter of right and wrong. We are simply two adults who grew up in different houses far away from one another.”
― Ann Patchett, This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage