Annette

“She turned her face into the pillow and let her tears drain into it, and felt that yet more was lost, when there was no witness to her sorrow.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“Why is it okay to put someone to death, but it’s not okay for those people to do it themselves?”
― Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

“Some things exist in our lives for but a brief moment. And we must let them go on to light another sky.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

“I cannot understand anti-abortion arguments that centre on the sanctity of life. As a species we've fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don't believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain and life-long poverty shows us that, whatever we tell ourselves, we've made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman