Amy

“Oskar's particular blessings are blessings that only a major cosmopolitan city can bestow on a refugee. They represent all our potential to survive and even thrive in the face of great loss.”
― Richard Simon, Oskar and the Eight Blessings

“Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence.”
― Martin E.P. Seligman, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“In the morning they found that the remnants had been cleared, leaving only a circle of black ash to scar the grass. In the months and years that followed even that would fade.”
― Anthony Ryan, Blood Song

“What we think to be our greatest weakness can sometimes be our biggest strength. And that the most unlikely person can alter the course of history.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin