Natalie

“If the divine is also female, and the female also divine, then she understands that woman is more than mother, more than daughter, more than wife. Those are the facets of a full life, but no single facet defines the jewel.”
― Robin Hobb, Ship of Destiny

“What a burden it must have been. You're very brave for facing it alone."
"Thank you," she mumbled.
"Amazingly, astonishingly stupid, but brave."
She cracked a smile. "Yeah."
"Very foolish, is what I'm getting at."
"I can see that."
"This, basically. Just thick. Dumb as a bag of hammers. Not too bright there, Valkyrie."
"You can really stop complimenting me now.”
― Derek Landy, Mortal Coil

“It's hard to imagine, but even amid so much violence and chaos and loss, somehow the universe sometimes still manages to look beautiful.”
― Jay Kristoff, Obsidio

“I certainly didn't set out to create something famous there. I just set out to find some answers to questions that were nagging me. As in life, so in science: One thing leads to another, and before you know it, you find yourself someplace you never imagined going.”
― William M. Bass, Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales