Molly

“There’s a sense of sovereignty that comes from life on a mountain, a perception of privacy and isolation, even of dominion. In that vast space you can sail unaccompanied for hours, afloat on pine and brush and rock. It’s a tranquillity born of sheer immensity; it calms with its very magnitude, which renders the merely human of no consequence. Gene was formed by this alpine hypnosis, this hushing of human drama.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“A robber who steals a knife and cuts himself cannot cry out against the woman who kept it sharp.” He”
― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver

“But the world I wanted wasn’t the world I lived in, and if I would do nothing until I could repair every terrible thing at once, I would do nothing forever.”
― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver

“Even if we handle it as well as possible, I thought, it’s still going to be terrible.”
― Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually