It's easy to quote the great authors like Shakespeare, Dickens, Austin, and Twain. They have so many beautiful lines that deserve repeating. But I also think it's unfair to treat modern writers as inferior. I have read some amazing books published in the last 10 years that made me wonder, smile, cry, and reflect. Here's a collection of a few of my favorites....
-“Stop walking through the world looking for
confirmation that you don’t belong. You will always find it because
you’ve made that your mission. Stop scouring people’s faces for evidence
that you’re not enough. You will always find it because you’ve made
that your goal. True belonging and self-worth are not goods; we don’t
negotiate their value with the world. The truth about who we are lives
in our hearts. Our call to courage is to protect our wild heart against
constant evaluation, especially our own. No one belongs here more than
you.”--Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness
“Listen. I don't know how or when
My grieving will end, but I'm always
Relearning how to be human again.”--Sherman Alexie, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
“Teach her that if you criticize X in women but
do not criticize X in men, then you do not have a problem with X, you
have a problem with women.”--Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele
“Maybe there were no villains in my mother’s
story at all. Just men and women, trying to do their best by each other.
And failing.” --John Boyne, The Heart's Invisible Furies
“If I have learned anything in this long life of
mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find
out who we are.” --Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale
“Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday
you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite
song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of
them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you
as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”--Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
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