Betty

“We exchange the currency of our dreams for a reality funded by acceptance as we get older.”
― Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are

“The truth of course is that if people really were as happy as they look on the Internet, they wouldn’t spend so much damn time on the Internet, because no one who’s having a really good day spends half of it taking pictures of themselves. Anyone can nurture a myth about their life if they have enough manure, so if the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, that’s probably because it’s full of shit.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“I WILL NEVER LIVE LIKE THAT - A LIFE WONDERING WHEN AND WHERE THE NEXT FIST WILL FALL" l”
― Delia owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“You're lucky to have escaped this weary life so soon. Perhaps that's what hell is, a long term in earth-bound bondage. Perhaps we suffer our hell's in living...”
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds