Miss Clara

“I didn’t want you to remember this day because of the scarf. So I thought instead you could remember it as the day your Granny broke into a zoo—” “And escaped from a hospital,” Elsa says with a grin. “And escaped from a hospital,” says Granny with a grin. “And threw turds at the police.” “Actually, it was soil! Or mainly soil, anyway.” “Changing memories is a good superpower, I suppose.” Granny shrugs. “If you can’t get rid of the bad, you have to top it up with more goody stuff.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“I was the perfect automaton: blessed with ability but cursed with ignorance.”
― Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls

“We are a volley of bullets, we are cannonballs. We are the tip of the sword.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“We have to do it for my mum's sake. Because I'm hoping that the last sorry will be to her.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry