Graeme

“You don't really get to choose. We worship you, and that makes you our God.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“But these were days of self-fulfillment, where settling for something that was not quite your first choice of a life seemed weak-willed and ignoble. Somewhere, surrendering to what seemed to be your fate had changed from being dignified to being a sign of your own cowardice. There were times when the pressure to achieve happiness felt almost oppressive, as if happiness were something that everyone should and could attain, and that any sort of compromise in its pursuit was somehow your fault.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“My poor Isabel. Here, take this and write. Unburden your heart; if you don’t you are going to die of anguish.”
― Isabel Allende, Paula

“I am frightened. I have known fear before, but there was always an escape; even during the terror of the military coup there was the salvation of exile. Now I am in a blind alley with all doors closed to hope, and I don’t know how to handle so much fear.”
― Isabel Allende, Paula