NerdWhoLovesToRead

“To sh-show you mercy now would be to sh-show no mercy to those you will p-prey upon next.”
― Amy Harmon, The First Girl Child

“To love was to be at the mercy of someone else. To love was to be controlled.”
― Amy Harmon, The First Girl Child

“My point," Bongo continued, "is that the world's a tough place. Doesn't matter if you're a bunny or a lizard or a kid.”
― Katherine Applegate, Wishtree

“They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People