Sarah Budde

“Life can be wonderful but it can also be scary and hard. We should be free to feel sad or gloomy or just downright bloody miserable, without feeling like there’s something wrong with us.”
― Alexandra Potter, Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up: A Novel

“You were doing such a good job of it, and you look like you don’t hear that often enough. I don’t want to take that away from you.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“an instant apart, and every meeting is a fresh start. A clean slate.”
― Victoria E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Superficial appeasement of the people. Credited to Juvenal, I believe, a Roman poet born after Christ’s time. It means the powerful remain powerful by way of distraction and cheap satisfaction of the most base and immediate needs of the masses. No need for meaning or civic involvement.”
― Will Dean, The Last One