Marlene Wessel

“Her boldness, which I'd always thought I'd been borrowing from her, had become mine in ways I didn't realize until she was gone. I didn't flinch around people who didn't like me; I didn't feel anymore like being myself was something for which I owed the world an apology.”
― Danielle Evans, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self

“I used to think you were so brave, and sometimes I still do, and sometimes I think it’s just that there’s nothing in your life but you, and you have no idea what it means to be scared that what you do might matter.”
― Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections

“Most of a place is not what human beings think. Maybe we will be better human beings when we begin to see all the other things a place is besides all the things we think it is or wanted it to be.”
― Brian Doyle, Martin Marten

“It’s wrong to say that animals do not feel what we feel; indeed, they may feel far more than we do and in far different emotional shades.”
― Brian Doyle, Martin Marten