Sarah

“One of the last times she met her neighbor in the elevator he gave her a very thick book, written by a man. He had underlined one sentence, several hundred pages in: We are asleep until we fall in love. Estelle gave him a book in exchange, one written by a woman, so it didn’t need hundreds of pages to say things. Close to the start Estelle had underlined: Love is wanting you to exist.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“This isn't a decision I make lightly, but being a parent is not about doing what is right for ourselves, is it? It's about sacrificing all we can, big and small, to give our children their best chance at life.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter

“Then I remembered what my father had told me, that the things we could do nothing about were best put out of our minds.”
― Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

“She’d been strolling—for pleasure. Because everything that the poor do out of necessity, the rich do for pleasure.”
― Allison Pataki, Sisi: Empress on Her Own