Jayne Waterhouse

“It’s hard to care about people. Exhausting, in fact, because empathy is a complicated thing. It requires us to accept that everyone else’s lives are also going on the whole time. We have no pause button for when everything gets too much for us to deal with, but then neither does anyone else.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“She was holding desperately on to the words that had saved her life.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“What could be more perfect than marrying the person you love.”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

“You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who decides the history.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See