Amie Clostio

“Marriage.
There ought to be a different word for it once you've been married for enough years. When you've long since passed the point where it stopped feeling like a choice. I no longer choose you every morning, that was a beautiful thing we said on our wedding day, I just can't imagine life without you now. We aren't freshly blooming flowers, we're two trees with intertwined roots, you've grown old within me.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“...that simplicity in human affairs was the way of truth, and complexity the way of deceit.
That envy and coveting were poisons from which arose the lust for power and all evil.
That love was the antidote to envy and coveting.
That truth was essential for the flourishing of love.
That love was essential to maintain innocence.
That peace of mind and perfect happiness could be achieved only through the truth of innocence and the simplicity of truth.”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“You can't write well without a grasp of profanity and the ability to look at filth, to sometimes exalt filth.”
― Stephen King, Holly

“Do you want to understand people? Really understand them? Then you need to know all the best that we are capable of.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners