Amelia

“remember that motherhood is mostly bearing shame to dress my children, to feed them, and to spare them the things I wasn’t spared.”
― Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries: A Memoir

“God is a thing I think I see in glimmers all over: an enormous and vague warmth I sometimes catch pulsing around me, giving me shivers and making tears prick my eyes; a mysterious and limitless Thing threaded through all the world and refusing to be reduced to a name or a set of rules and instead winding itself through millions of stories, true and made up, connecting all breathing things.”
― Emily Henry, The Love That Split the World

“War is a germ that can rarely be contained.”
― Ransom Riggs, A Map of Days

“Joy is a delicious luxury that we experience most cautiously, for tragedy conceals itself around every corner.”
― Lisa See, The Island of Sea Women