Renata Xavier

“Alice tried not to think too hard about the previous evening. She had once been told by her favorite aunt that the best way to get through life was not to dwell on things so she packed those events into a suitcase, and shoved it to the back of a mental cupboard,”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“Negative liberty,” he said, “is the freedom from external obstacles or constraints.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“Try to remember, I thought, how it felt to be that close to the truth, the real truth: That life isn’t all good, but it isn’t all bad either. Try to remember how it felt, finally, to understand what Mike had been trying to say. Shine a light.”
― Prince Harry, Spare

“Dad was talking loudly, at a volume that would have suited a mountainside but was thunderous in the small restaurant.”
― Tara Westover, Educated