Sidney Mendenhall

“No. I have many mothers. If I am hideous, then we are hideous together. And that made it easier, because in her heart of hearts, she could not believe that her mothers were anything but beautiful.”
― T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

“To Pedro, God was the love which existed between two human beings, or a group of human beings. Thus love was all important.”
― Piers Paul Read, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors

“If by my life or death I can protect you, I will. ”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“I couldn’t deny that the world that made the heron made me too, that we were of the same time and context, and somehow, in that moment, it didn’t feel possible that I was made to be miserable and afraid, to be measured by bank statements or resumes, not when there were living poems, descended from dinosaurs, walking beneath the silent trees just as they had long before the first written language.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, Something in the Woods Loves You