Chiamay

“As if they were kicking a memory back and forth, a memory of a woman who insisted on seeing more potential in certain men than they saw in themselves. Neither of them have what to do with their shared experience.”
― Fredrik Backman , A Man Called Ove

“My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“The sun rises the next day after mothers lose their babies, after men lose their wives, after countries lose wars. The sun will rise no matter what pain we encounter. No matter how much we believe the world to be over, the sun will rise. So you can’t go around assessing love by whether or not the sun rises. The sun doesn’t care about love. It just cares about rising.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, After I Do

“Can’t you see, these masks we wear betray us. They reveal us.”
― Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle