Rachel

“I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.”
― A.M. Homes, The End of Alice

“You can't blame me. I mean that literally. You're incapable of blaming me. You're human. Being human is choosing freedom over imprisonment, autonomy over dependency, liberty over servitude. You can't blame me because you know (come on, man, you've always known) that the idea of spending eternity with nothing to do except praise God is utterly unappealing. You'd be catatonic after an hour. Heaven's a swiz because to get in you have to leave yourself outside. You can't blame me because -- now do please be honest with yourself for once -- you'd have left, too.”
― Glen Duncan, I, Lucifer

“It was so good to be held. If only their relationship could be distilled into simple, wordless gestures of comfort. Why had humans ever learned to talk?”
― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy

“You’re not supposed to dislike your own child. You were supposed to like them no matter what, even if they were not what you wanted.”
― JK Rowling, The Casual Vacancy