Zara

“I don’t care. Cause when you see a scrap of pretty in this world, you gotta stop and give it a little respect.”
― Patry Francis, All the Children Are Home

“Winning’s never about what anyone else does. It’s something that happens between you and yourself. You don’t look to the left or the right. You just jump in the water and swim with everything you have. You swim for your life, Ma, and when you reach the finish line and look up, whoever you thought you were competing against is gone. Poof.”
― Patry Francis, All the Children Are Home

“Grief, I'd come to realize was like dust, When you're in the thick of a dust storm, you're completely disoriented by the onslaught, struggling to see or breathe. But as the force recedes, and you slowly find your bearing and see a path forward, the dust begins to settle into the crevices. And it will never disappear completely- as the years pass, you'll find it in unexpected places at unexpected moments.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“[The noble feel the same strong feelings as the rest of us; the difference is in how they choose to act.]”
― Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies