Bee Abbott

“I can’t help thinking that we’re more than the sum total of our choices, that all the paths we might have taken factor somehow into the math of our identity.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again; don't do it; and the little girl glanced at her, and smiled a little subtle, dimpling, wholly comprehending smile, and shook her head stubbornly at the glass. Brave girl, Eleanor thought; wise, brave girl.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“It’s more profitable for people to stay ill than to hand them a one-fix cure. The healthcare system has built a billion-dollar industry on the back of illness.”
― Jack Hunt, The Haze

“She isn't a big deal, of course, except to the people who matter in her life, but since these are the only ones she cares about, that's fine.”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder