Cher

“Vultures and peacocks might both have feathers and beaks, but one did not confuse the two creatures.”
― Robin Hobb, The Dragon Keeper

“She felt silence growing in her. Sometimes it reminded her of a fast-growing ivy; silence covered her and cloaked her, and she suspected that one day she would smother in the silences Hest could create. It was an effort to break through that strangling quiet, but she did it.”
― Robin Hobb, The Dragon Keeper

“Ancient yoga, and its focus on prana, sitting, and breathing, has turned into a form of aerobic exercise.”
― James Nestor, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

“Abuse can be quiet and insidious just as often as, or even more often than, it is loud and violent. As far as I know, my grandfather wasn’t a physically violent man or even a particularly angry one. He didn’t have to be; he expected to get what he wanted and almost always did. It wasn’t his inability to fix his oldest son that infuriated him, it was the fact that Freddy simply wasn’t what he wanted him to be. Fred dismantled his oldest son by devaluing and degrading every aspect of his personality and his natural abilities until all that was left was self-recrimination and a desperate need to please a man who had no use for him.”
― Mary L. Trump, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man