Cassandra.

“Courage isn’t about the absence of fear. Courage is doing the one thing you think you cannot do.”
― Karen White, The Sound of Glass

“The people you will love in your lifetime will give you certain things, different things. And those different things will shape you, and when you are older, if you are lucky, thinking back on what those people gave you will bring you a measure of contentment, for one reason or another—which is love. ~Lee Fullbright, The Angry Woman Suite”
― Lee Fullbright, The Angry Woman Suite

“Looking pretty isn’t about how people see you. It’s about letting people know how you feel about yourself.”
― Karen White, The Sound of Glass

“Missing someone is a crazy-quilt kind of thing: acceptance one piece, but right above the acceptance patch is another patch, this one made of grief, plus two more grief patches over at the side rising up to slap you down—generally right after you’ve got yourself convinced you’ve figured out the gist”
― Lee Fullbright, The Angry Woman Suite