Sarah

“As they carried along and met more people Furlong did and did not know, he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another? Was it possible to carry on along through all the years, the decades, through an entire life, without once being brave enough to go against what was there and yet call yourself a Christian, and face yourself in the mirror?”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.”
― Élie Wiesel, Night

“God must have hated womankind something terrible to punish her month after month, and leave the mark of blood as her shame.”
― Leah Weiss, If the Creek Don't Rise

“But what shall I do on Christmas night if nobody has given me a book?”
― Selma Lagerlöf