Anna Taylor

“Do you pray Clara? Clara stiffened, the familiar rage rushing through her veins. Pray? You mean talk to myself and imagine some guy in the sky will make it all better?”
― Michelle Good, Five Little Indians

“A name was once seen as part of the soul, and now I understood its magic... It's why, as long as someone held your name on their lips, you were alive.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Book of Two Ways

“But sometimes a person’s brain starts cycling. No matter what you do, the same thoughts just keep repeating, over and over. You get stuck in a loop, and when you’re inside that loop, you can’t see past it. You’ll keep coming up with the same possibilities, to no end, because the answers you need—they’re outside the loop. Distractions aren’t just distractions. Sometimes they can break you out of the loop.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“This hurts too much to touch with words.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners