Elizabeth

“First frost meant letting go, so it was always reason to celebrate.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

“Your job is obviously very pressured."

"I thrive under pressure," I explain. Which is true. I've known that about myself ever since...

Well. Ever since my mother told me when I was about 8.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess

“Every mother must leave her children to work, and every mother suffers, but we do it.”
― Lisa See, The Island of Sea Women

“You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is. That’s the lesson. Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest. Of course we do. Name me a person or a nation who does not. The trick is figuring out where your interests are.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See