Sigrid

“In conclusion, don’t worry about it.
You already have The Most. And you’re already one of The Best.”
― Lauren Graham, In Conclusion, Don't Worry About It

“Once I stopped worrying so much about pleasing others, once I decided to let myself off the hook, I realized I could fly.”
― Lauren Graham, In Conclusion, Don't Worry About It

“She would say I fell asleep, but I did not. I simply let the darkness in the sky become coextensive with the darkness in my skull and bowels and bones. Everything that falls upon the eye is apparition, a sheet dropped over the world's true workings. The nerves and the brain are tricked, and one is left with dreams that these specters loose their hands from ours and walk away, the curve of the back and the swing of the coat so familiar as to imply that they should be permanent fixtures of the world, when in fact nothing is more perishable.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping

“There had been something gentle in her, a pool of magic, not a running stream that had washed away all the ordinary parts of her life.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted