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“But I’ve learned you can hold joy and grief at the same time. Even under the worst conditions, flowers will bloom where they are planted. Love is the why behind every heartbeat, every breath. And there are no crimes, no pain beyond love.”
― Terah Shelton Harris, Where the Wildflowers Grow

“Natalie’s like a border collie, my mother used to say to the other women at church. She needs a project, otherwise she starts chewing the cabinet corners. Are you saying my son is a project? I imagined Doug saying. No, I imagined my mother replying. I’m saying he’s the cabinet corner.”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“I’m part white, part Black, part Japanese, part Pakistani, and all bisexual,” he said. “Just reaching for the very, very low-hanging fruit when it comes to the history of those latter population segments, I give you slavery, Japanese internment, colonization, and chemical castration. All, at some point, legal and accepted—and how? Because a lot of men claimed the right to sit around a table and bring exceptionally evil things into practice, while pretending to be polite, civilized, and moral human beings. Boards, committees, legislatures”—Beau’s hand encompassed all of them, and more—“can be the ultimate gaslighters and normalizers of the inhumane.”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library

“Heathcliff, who let’s be honest was a stack of red flags in a frock coat rather than any kind of worthy book boyfriend—”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library