Elisabeth

“Thousands of years of tradition. People don't see the humanity that lies in the animals, same as people don't see the animal that is within humans. The first time I saw Jum, she was trying to lift her dead brother up with her trunk. She was trying to get him to stand again. She'd even stuffed grass in his mouth to try to get him to eat”
― Deb Caletti, The Nature of Jade

“The world is full of miracles, but none greater than how far a young person can be carried by someone else’s belief in them.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Art teaches us to mourn for strangers.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“If there is nothing but what we make in this world, brothers, let us make good.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends