Elizabeth

“The power of just mercy is that it belongs to the undeserving. It’s when mercy is least expected that it’s most potent—strong enough to break the cycle of victimization and victimhood, retribution and suffering. It has the power to heal the psychic harm and injuries that lead to aggression and violence, abuse of power, mass incarceration.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“I quickly turned my thoughts away from my mother’s overbearing prudence before I might accidentally see reason in it.”
― William Ritter, Jackaby

“You’ll never be able to find yourself if you’re lost in someone else.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“The neighborhood homeowners always knew when she ran by, because they suddenly felt the desire to organize their sock drawers and finally replace those burned out light-bulbs they'd been meaning to.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost