Rosetta Levinsky

“...the past shooting out at me like sparrows for the hedgerow, startling and inescapable.”
― Paula Hawkins, Into the Water

“When you're suffering, you're oversensitive to everything.”
― Henri Charrière

“Victory in defeat, there is none higher. She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her. She's a father working while cancer eats away his insides, to bring home one more pay check. She's a twelve-year-old trying to mother her brothers and sisters because mama had to go to Heaven. She's a switchboard operator sticking to her post while smoke chokes her and fire cuts off her escape. She's all the unsung heroes who couldn't make it but never quit.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.”
― Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery