Kerry

“Society tells us that when a woman expresses her intense negative emotions publicly, she’s lost control and should be penalized. When a man does the same, it’s normal male behavior and does not merit punishment.”
― Marc Brackett, Permission to Feel: The Power of Emotional Intelligence to Achieve Well-Being and Success

“Yet, when this cherished volume was now placed in my hand—when I turned over its leaves, and sought in its marvellous pictures the charm I had, till now, never failed to find—all was eerie and dreary; the giants were gaunt goblins, the pigmies malevolent and fearful imps, Gulliver a most desolate wanderer in most dread and dangerous regions.  I closed the book, which I dared no longer peruse, and put it on the table, beside the untasted tart.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Hard writing makes easy reading.”
― Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety

“WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days were over.”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove