Alma P

“That's why we get the chance to spoil our grandchildren, because by doing that we're apologizing to our children.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“I feel myself retreating to someplace deep inside. It is a pitiful kind of childhood, to know that no one loves you or is taking care of you, to always be on the outside looking in. I feel a decade older than my years. I know too much; I have seen people at their worst, at their most desperate and selfish, and this knowledge makes me wary. So I am learning to pretend, to smile and nod, to display empathy I do not feel. I am learning to pass, to look like everyone else, even though I feel broken inside.”
― Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train

“You could trace it back infinitely. All these different veins, but who knew which one led to the heart?”
― Cristina Henriquez, The Book of Unknown Americans

“In the Age of Bronze, when a canny few discovered the science of metallurgy, how long did it take for them to fashion coins, crowns, and swords? That unholy trinity to which the common man was enslaved for the next one thousand years.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow