Hannah

“And what she saw, for the first time, was not ugliness at all but pain so enormous and consuming that it had felt like dying. I’m sorry, she said silently to her past self. I’m sorry I hated you. I’m sorry I wasn’t kinder. All the shame that had been tangled up in the memory was annihilated, leaving only compassion and regret in its place.”
― Sangu Mandanna, A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”
― Gloria Steinem