And just because she and her uncle were loaded, that didn’t automatically make them useless as human beings. - Charles de Lint

The more she tried to recapture the impulse that had set her wanting to put pen to paper, the less it seemed to have ever existed in the first place.

I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.

The stronger a woman gets, the more insecure the men in her life feel. It doesn’t work that way for a woman. We celebrate strength — in our partners as well as in ourselves.