Sammy Lockrem

“You can’t control the world—or other people. You can’t make them love you, either. They will or they won’t, and that’s the truth. But what you can do is decide who you want to be in the face of it all. Do you want to be a person who helps—or hurts? Do you want to be a person who burns with anger—or shines with compassion? Do you want to be hopeful or hopeless? Give up or keep going? Live or die?”
― Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

“I just hate myself so much for not being loved.” Oof. I absolutely got it. I made my voice soft. “You can’t make people love you. But you can give the love you long for out to the world. You can be the love you wish you had. That’s the way to be okay. Because giving love to other people is a way of giving it to yourself.”
― Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

“We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“There is no room for mercy in The Alliance. And I am The Alliance now.”
― S.J. Tilly, Dom