"To remedy means to heal, to cure, to set right, to make reparations." -Zena Sharman, The Remedy

"It‘s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then." -Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

"Candy was also about fun. Already marketed to kids for over one hundred years when I came around in the late 1950s, candy tasted good, was texturally appealing, and was of my own choosing. At the candy store on my way to school, I got to select the jelly beans, Good & Plenty, and licorice whips and navigate the money to pay for them." -Susan Benjamin, Sweet as Sin

"And wasn't that the inexhaustible struggle for Greta? Her perpetual need to be alone but always loved, and in love." -David Ebershoff, The Danish Girl

"I fix myself a hot chocolate because it is a gateway drug to reading." -Helen Ellis, American Housewife

"It just goes to show you: every baby is born beautiful. It's what we project on them that makes them ugly." -Jodi Picoult, Small Great Things

"The Maya built with stone, while this region had been extensively settled by a separate, sophisticated culture that built great earthen mounds. This was an entirely new culture. Even as Strong‘s work showed definitively that Mosquitia was not part of the Maya realm, however, his discoveries raised more questions than they answered." -Douglas Preston, The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story

"If you don't understand, ask questions. If you're uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway. It's easy to tell when a question is coming from a good place. Then listen some more. Sometimes people just want to feel heard. Here's to possibilities of friendship and connection and understanding." -Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

"He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since." -Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

"Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes." -Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

"These people are so damned proud of their hatred! Hatred is easy, and lazy to boot. It‘s love that demands effort, love that exacts a price from each of us. Love costs; this is its value." -Erika Johansen, The Fate of the Tearling

"The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it." -Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

"Even small gestures of kindness have the potential to reap enormous rewards. Only the shortsighted man believes otherwise."
-Erika Johansen, Invasion of the Tearling

"Those who cease to worry about their souls often find them difficult to reclaim later."
-Erika Johansen, The Queen of the Tearling

"Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness...and perhaps even Satan- Satan, in spite of himself- somehow serves to work out the will of God."
-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist