Beth

“He thought about the life he had led, and all those years of training. He thought he’d been training his body and his mind but really he’d been training the habit. Habit was the strongest thing inside him right now. It was overriding the fear. It was overriding the logic and the want and it was overriding the need. There was nothing”
― Katie Kitamura, The Longshot

“A person might join a site to look at pictures of her nephew and five years later believe in a flat earth.”
― Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

“Marisol. Do not ask me to choose between who I love and who I am. I fear it would not reflect well on either one of us.”
― Chanel Cleeton, Next Year in Havana

“whether you long to ease the pain of your ancestors, or for a world in which life could survive without consuming other life; whether you yearn for a lost person, an unborn child, the fountain of youth, or unconditional love: These are all manifestations of the same great ache.”
― Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole