Sandra

“Because that was a parent's job: to provide shoulders. Shoulders for your children to sit on when they're little so they can see the world, then stand on when they get older so they can reach the clouds, and sometimes lean against whenever they stumble and feel unsure. They trust us, which is a crushing responsibility, because they haven't yet realized that we don't actually know what we're doing.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“Fear of the thing,” Maher murmurs, more to himself than to Omeir, “will be more powerful than the thing itself.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“Boats that stay in the harbor are safe, sweetheart, but that's not what boats were built for.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“Thanks in great part to twenty-four-hour cable news and social media. modern politics pits us against one another. It forces us to choose a side and has convinced us our side is right and the other side is wrong. If you don't agree with me, you are my enemy. There is no room for compromise.

That's unfortunate. Because most of the great accomplishments of the world have not been made by people who were certain. The accomplishments have come about as a result of people who had doubts. 'I don't know if this is going to work. I don't know how to solve this problem.' And then they work on it.”
― Alex Trebek, The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life