Renata Frank

“People’s recollections are tinted with their own biases. Their beliefs, layered over the top, sometimes rendering a completely different meaning.”
― Julie Clark, The Ghostwriter

“be angry, and if you stay angry long enough, it will become comfortable, like an old robe. But eventually you’ll realize that old robe is all you’ve got, and there isn’t anything else in the wardrobe that fits. And at that point, you’re just waiting to trade the robe for a shroud—or at least, that’s what I’ve always thought.”
― Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

“is so much easier to sit in things and wait for something to save us.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“Wasn’t she? “No woman is anyone’s ‘other half.’ We are all entire people. Completely whole, and totally unique. But sometimes when you put two very different whole people together, a kind of magic, an alchemy, occurs. Bea said I was like eggs and sugar, and she was flour and butter, and when you mixed us together, we were more than just the combination of our ingredients, we were the whole damn cake.”
― Clare Pooley, Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting