Cher

“People get it wrong. The magic’s not in the person. The magic is in the place. It just takes the right kind of person to pull it up.”
― Cherie Dimaline, VenCo

“Men never really wanted your help anyway, she thought. They wanted you to do things for them, but it would never be thought of as help so much as required service”
― Jami Attenberg, All This Could Be Yours: A Searing Southern Family Drama About Confronting Bad Men and Toxic Legacy

“Here is a separation. Your heart, the park of you that feels. Your mind, the part of you that thinks. Your soul, the part of you that is. I almost never hear neuroscientists speak about the soul. Because of our work, we are often given to thinking about the part of humans that is the vital, inexplicable essence of ourselves, as the workings of our brain-- mysterious, elegant, essential. Everything we don't understand about what makes a person a person can be uncovered once we understand this organ. There is no separation. Our brains are our hearts that feel and our minds that think and our souls that are. But when I was a child I called this essence a soul and I believed in its supremacy over the mind and the heart, its immutability and connection to Christ himself.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

“What we miss - what we lose and what we mourn - isn’t it this that makes us who, deep down, we truly are. To say nothing of what we wanted in life but never got to have.”
― Sigrid Nunez, The Friend