Becca Schmidt

“Empathetic dysfunction, her therapists call it, a sometimes debilitating response to an overload of impersonal but negative information.”
― Bruce Holsinger, Culpability

“It seem sumtimes you jest gotta put up wif your friends. Dey gonna do what dey gonna do.”
― Percival Everett, James

“The spirit is the warm light within us, the lantern that shines bright. The soul, however, is its moodier shadow. It moves like the pull of water. It broods and it weeps. It bellows and it howls.”
― Alyson Richman, The Missing Pages

“the days when disagreeing was considered a good thing, when differing viewpoints were welcomed because they challenged and honed your thinking rather than producing anger and scorn.”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye