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When one parent dies, the world is dramatically altered, absolutely, but you still have another one left. When that second parent dies, it's the loss of all ties, and where does that leave you? You lose your history, your sense of connection to the past. You also lose the final buffer between you and death. Even if you're an adult, it's weird to be orphaned.

—Hope Edelman in Motherless Daughters

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He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

—Saki

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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

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A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.

—Anne Lamott in Joe Jones

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Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life ― it has given me me. It has provided time and experience and failures and triumphs and time-tested friends who have helped me step into the shape that was waiting for me. I fit into me now. I have an organic life, finally, not necessarily the one people imagined for me, or tried to get me to have. I have the life I longed for. I have become the woman I hardly dared imagine I would be.

—Anne Lamott in Plan B

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As I was walking up the stair / I met a man who wasn't there. / He wasn't there again today. / I wish, I wish he'd stay away.

—Hughes Mearns

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I didn't know if I believed in 'happily ever after' anymore. I mean, I didn't know what would happen tomorrow, let alone for forever and ever after. But I did know that I was happy, right there, right then, with him. And that was all I needed to know.

—Stephanie Kate Strohm in Pilgrims Don't Wear Pink

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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.

—Anne Lamott in Bird by Bird

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Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

—Diogenes the Cynic

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What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists.

—Spencer Johnson in Who Moved My Cheese?

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We spend too much time teaching girls to worry about what boys think of them. But the reverse is not the case. We don't teach boys to care about being likable. We spend too much time telling girls that they cannot be angry or aggressive or tough, which is bad enough, but then we turn around and either praise or excuse men for the same reasons.

—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in We Should All Be Feminists

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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

—John Adams

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Heroes did not always swoop in to rescue. They made questionable calls. They lived with doubts. They replayed and edited and imagined different outcomes. They killed, sometimes, to save.

—Jodi Picoult in A Spark of Light

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I think online friends often know you the best.

—Jacquelyn Middleton in London Belongs to Me

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I did something brave. Or stupid. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.

—Michelle Hodkin in The Evolution of Mara Dyer

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