Em Carr

“What do you see before you? What else could you? I am a child who has everything. But honestly, I would trade places with just about anyone. For good or ill, I'll never know freedom, never be allowed to take a chance and experience accomplishment. Never really know my own worth, or worthlessness. You know, never being allowed to fall down steals any gratification or confidence from standing up.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Esrahaddon

“Forgive her, if you can," I say. "Remember that fate is never what we think it will be. Your mother-my mother-we can never understand their torments. Their hurts. We may suffer the consequences of their mistakes and their sins, but we should not carry them on our hearts. We don't deserve that.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Reaper at the Gates

“Everything presents contradictions and conflicts. The agonizing dilemma is to discover where life is leading and to have to make a choice.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“For the first time, I understood that I was afraid of Mother for the guilt she made me bear, and that I could never have an honest conversation with her. The woman I wanted for a friend would always be right; I would always be wrong. I have never understood why, for Mother was genuinely kind to others and could be kind to me when I did exactly as she wished.”
― Beverly Cleary, A Girl from Yamhill