Peggymsu

“It doesn’t take a lot to be able to let go of your child. It takes everything.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“Things always come back into balance, though, right? Eventually.” Dad goes very still, eerily so considering his disease. “Eventually. Balance came back in 1918 after twenty million deaths. It came back in 1945 after seventy million. It’s getting the pendulum back to the midpoint that’s the killer. And right now it’s being pushed hard right, all around the world. The last gasp of Ozymandias—once more, with feeling.”
― Greg Iles, Cemetery Road

“Religion is something between you and other people; it’s full of interpretations and theories and opinions. But faith . . . that’s just between you and God.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“And the country has drifted so far off course, nobody even cares about the truth anymore.”
― Greg Iles, Cemetery Road