Rhonda

“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

“He would often try to think that perhaps that has to be the case: that our teenage years have to simultaneously be the brightest light and the darkest depths, because that’s how we learn to figure out our horizons. from My Friends”
― Frederick Backman

“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

“People don’t believe women who fight back. When a man lashes out, people say he’s lost control of his temper or made a terrible mistake. When a woman does it, she’s a psychopath.”
― Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie