Susan

“Stay angry, little Meg,” Mrs Whatsit whispered. “You will need all your anger now.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“All my life,” she said, “I have been told ‘go’ and ‘come.’ I am told how I will live, and I am told how I must die. I must be a man’s servant and a mare for his pleasure, or I must hide myself behind walls and surrender my flesh to a cold, silent god. I would walk into the jaws of hell itself, if it were a path of my own choosing. I would rather die tomorrow in the forest than live a hundred years of the life appointed me. Please. Please let me help you.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.”
― Sue Grafton, M is for Malice