Beth

“Grief is like a fingerprint, different every time.”
― Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly

“I do believe that it’s the falls we take when we are far from the place where we grew up which make us robust, Eadie, which equip us for the world. I do believe it’s when we can get back on our feet and haul ourselves upright, miles away from where we perceive the safety of our childhood to be, that we become adults, that we are prepared for life.”
― Freya North, The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne

“Sometimes she cries because things are so beautiful and we keep messing them up. Because the world doesn’t have to be so terrifying. That’s on people, not the world.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“I mean, of course that husband thinks he can still push you around,” Peg said. “You frighten him. A woman with a brain. Nothing scares them more.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half