Margo Berendsen

“It is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“She almost laughed. “I think you’re a man who gathers up power like a child gathers up wildflowers in the woods.”

  “Responsibility, maybe,” he said. “Not necessarily power.”

  “Harder to gather handfuls of lake water or rain,” she said.

  “I know,” he said. “I don’t expect to be able to harvest you.”
― Sharon Shinn, Troubled Waters

“You have to know that bigots are unwittingly handing you an edge. By thinking you're lesser than they are, they underestimate you. Lean on that. Learn to use it, and you'll get the upper hand.”
― Geraldine Brooks, Horse

“They were, all of them, lost to a narrative untethered to anything he recognized as true. Their mad conception of Mr. Lincoln as some kind of cloven-hoofed devil’s scion, their complete disregard—denial—of the humanity of the enslaved, their fabulous notions of what evils the Federal government intended for them should their cause fail—all of it was ingrained so deep, beyond the reach of reasonable dialogue or evidence. Scott had become convinced that a total obliteration of their rebellion was the only way forward.”
― Geraldine Brooks, Horse