Cari Borchert

“Death may be a one-time event, but living with a terminal illness is a process.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“The men will fight for their thrones and their power and their legacies, but to them we are nothing more than crickets and ants, insignificant, expendable. We will continue to worry over the rice and soy sauce and oil, three meals a day, how to escape the cold in the winter and the heat in the high summer, the holes in the roof and the bedding and the taxes. What does it matter who wears the crown, if they will not change any of this for us?”
― Ann Liang, A Song to Drown Rivers

“if I’m always trying to be Caroline’s savior, then I’m not letting her lean into the fact that He is her Savior.”
― Melanie Shankle, Here Be Dragons: Treading the Deep Waters of Motherhood, Mean Girls, and Generational Trauma

“You can be whatever you want to in life, as long as you don’t become a critic! Not of other people, and not of yourself.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends