Catherine Muller

“Perhaps it's an oddity of human nature to judge women more harshly, or maybe we expect so little of men their transgressions don't register the same.”
― Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

“Books won't solve my problems, Harriet.'
'No, but they give your problems perspective. They allow your problems to breathe.”
― Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

“Adults always think they can protect children by stopping them from going to dangerous places, but every teenager knows that’s pointless, because the most dangerous place on earth is inside us. Fragile hearts break in palaces and in dark alleys alike.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“A lack of self-confidence is a devastating virus. There’s no cure.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends