Maddy

“I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of his life.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“Children ceased to be children when you put a sword in their hands. When you taught them to fight a war, then you armed them and put them on the front lines, they were not children anymore. They were soldiers.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“You only need one ray of light to chase all the shadows away,”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove