Sue

“Elizabeth’s mind spun from what he told her. Under the laws of the United States at that time, a man’s wife was his property: Theophilus could do as he wished. She later wrote in bleak despair, “I…have married away all the freedom I ever had in America”
― Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence

“One must dare to be happy. ”
― Gertrude Stein

“To borrow Granny’s description, a bookstore is a place densely populated with tens of thousands of authors, dead or living, residing side by side. But books are quiet. They remain dead silent until somebody flips open a page. Only then do they spill out their stories, calmly and thoroughly, just enough at a time for me to handle.”
― Won-pyung Sohn, Almond

“The tie between parent and child is unbreakable, despite the sort of relationship they actually shared.”
― Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian