Karen

“Unlike men, women got less sintimental as we aged, I was discovering. We cried enough, when we were young; vessels overflowing with the tears of everyone we loved.”
― Melanie Benjamin, The Aviator's Wife

“When you are older and have swum out into the stream of life, you'll see - there are no 'good' people, little girl. We're all trying and failing, trying too hard and failing too often. Remember that. We shouldn't judge too harshly, in the end, the sins of others.”
― Kathleen Tessaro, The Perfume Collector

“The problem with history was that it was written by the survivors, and they usually wrote in the sunshine on harvest day, from victory stands.”
― Timothy Egan