Rhonda

“Adults always think they can protect children by stopping them from going to dangerous places, but every teenager knows that’s pointless, because the most dangerous place on earth is inside us.”
― Frederick Backman

“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

“But what is the use of safety if it deprives you of everything else?”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore