Eugene Dormanen

“I can leave myself to rot in the past, spend my time hating people for what happened, like my father did, or I can forgive and forget . . . You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day, You have to keep remembering all the bad things . . . We always have a choice. All of us.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“Then he’d stand the bird upright, saying, “Sorry, old fella,” and put it back in its cage.”
― Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

“Mary stared at the dreamlike happenings on the page. Human figures faced each other; the man’s head was a golden ball with rays reaching up to huge stars and out to the distant mountains; the woman’s silver head was sickle-shaped and surrounded by birds like eagles with white beaks. Some of the black letters glowed because they had tips like tiny flames.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

“Oh, no,” said Princess Sophie to her favourite rabbit friend, Hopper. “We have to do something. We can’t have Christmas without that special Christmas feeling. What can we do?”
― Mike Martin