Giselle

“there are people in the world who think only about themselves. They don’t care what happens to other people so long as they get what they want. They put other people down to make themselves feel important. “Then there are people who do the opposite, who are able to imagine how others must feel, and make sure that they don’t do things that hurt people. “So,” she said, looking me squarely in the eye. “Which kind of person do you want to be?”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

“I know the sort of man who likes me. So I wondered, not for the first time, what secret I might possess, what magic charm or talisman had allowed me to get Malloy's attention in the first place. To get him to fuck me. I am not the kind of woman he likes.”
― Susanna Moore, In the Cut

“The trees in the park swayed and shuddered in anticipation, with delight or dread I do not know.”
― Susanna Moore, In the Cut

“I had two broken horses…and they were the most unbroken creatures I’ve met here on earth.”
― Brandi Carlile, Broken Horses