Em Carr

“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

“At least I'm not lying in a bed, coughing up blood and wheezing my way into Phyre. No one may remember me, but I will enter the gates of light with my boots on.”
― Michael J Sullivan

“No precaution could have been more obvious than our refraining from communication with him that day; yet this again increased my restlessness.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“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