Sarah

“I see Death now as Baldoin, a wild and untamable thing, not a specter to be feared, not a mysterious enemy, but a piece of nature older than stones. Death was never the foe.

Fear is the foe. Hatred is the foe. Ignorance is the foe.”
― Elizabeth DeLozier, Eleanore of Avignon

“Things go smoother if you don’t let people get a rise out of you,” he says. “If you give them control over how you feel, they’ll always use it.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“Books contain everything worth knowing except what ultimately matters.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Sentence

“But Phoebe is starting to understand that on some nights, Lila is probably the loneliest girl in the world, just like Phoebe. And maybe they are all lonely. Maybe this is just what it means to be a person. To constantly reckon with being a single being in one body. Maybe everybody sits up at night and creates arguments in their head for why they are the loneliest person in the world.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People