Beccy

“She wanted a world where girls did not need to grow a spine of steel just to survive. Where they could be as soft and silly as they wanted. Where they could walk into a room full of new people and see endless possibilities instead of potential threats.”
― C.L. Herman, The Deck of Omens

“No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose that works the other way round as well.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“He wonders if he has stumbled upon a place where girls do not play games, where there are not unspoken rules to follow. No expectations. No chaperones. He wonders if his mother was like that. Wonders what makes a woman a witch.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“Cats hate us. They hate us so much. But they also need us. They need us more than they hate us.”
― Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor