Rhonda

“Why did no one ever tell Lydia that the most dangerous thing in the world isn’t natural disasters or wars or weapons? It is unremarkable men with beautiful smiles and even bigger promises.”
― Emiko Jean

“Fern felt a key turn in a lock, and she saw this baby - this girl baby - she saw this little girl live, this little girl that they had pulled out of Holly's body together and she knew that all the magic the witches had ever done was only a pale imitation of what had happened here tonight. This was the Great Mystery that lay at the heart of all things. This was the miracle that passed all understanding. First there is nothing. Then there is.”
― Grady Hendrix, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

“Every day she found parenthood like taking a test for which she had not studied. The questions were daunting and there wasn’t nearly enough multiple choice.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“That’s all of life. All we can hope for. You mustn’t think about the fact that it might end, because then you live like a coward, you never love too much or sing too loudly. You have to take it for granted, the artist thinks, the whole thing: Sunrises and slow Sunday mornings and water balloons, and another person’s breath against your neck. That’s the only courageous thing a person can do.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends