Lucy Bird

“Happiness is a choice as much as anything. Or you could choose to 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.” Grace March”
― Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

“We lose ourselves in books. We find ourselves there too.”
― Anonymous

“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“Their tenderness was hesitant and temporary, like a butterfly pausing on a child’s hand.”
― Alice Winn, In Memoriam