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The War of Art
“Are you a born writer? Were you put on earth to be a painter, a scientist, an apostle of peace? In the end the question can only be answered by action…. Do it or don’t do it” ~Steven Pressfield
Herbert Has Lots for a Buck
McLachlan investigates how these 12 Prairie communities have not only survived but managed to thrive!
My Dear Hamilton
“I could neither leave my husband nor love him without offending somebody. As the wronged wife, there was nothing whatsoever I could now do that might be counted appropriate, except, perhaps, to lay down and die of shame.” ~Stephanie Dray
The Secret Messenger
“Nazis and fascists emerge as the losers, in seeing what humanity they had wither to nothing.” ~Mandy Robotham
My Not So Perfect Life
“Whoever started the rumor that life has to be perfect is a very wicked person, if you ask me.” ~Sophie Kinsella
The Diamond Eye
“We don’t bury them. We let their dust vanish into the earth, so no one will remember their faces and names. That’s the way invaders ought to die.” ~Kate Quinn
The Woman They Could Not Silence
“I must defend myself,” she realized, “or go undefended.” Because no one was coming to save her. She had to save herself.” ~Kate Moore
The Woman at the Front
“Men are pitied when they come home maimed, scarred, missing limbs, their wits gone. For a woman, it would be better if you didn’t come home at all.” ~Lecia Cornwall
It Was Me All Along
“I realized that I couldn’t knowingly look to food for a way out when it had so clearly led me here. It wasn’t hunger that beckoned me to eat more. It wasn’t my stomach that needed to be reconciled. It was shame. It was guilt. And food can’t remedy such things” ~Andie Mitchell
I Am Malala
“I don't want to be thought of as the "girl who was shot by the Taliban" but the "girl who fought for education." This is the cause to which I want to devote my life.” ~Malala Yousafzai
Little House on the Prairie
“The vast prairie was dark and still. Only the wind moved stealthily through the grass, and the large, low stars hung glittering from the great sky.” ~Laura Ingalls Wilder
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.” ~Maya Angelou
Educated
“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell” ~Tara Westover
Prophet
“So why should he even bother himself with this? The answer came to his mind… evil prevails when good men do nothing.” ~Frank E. Peretti
Resistance Women
“you must never become accustomed to the extraordinary and the outrageous. If you do, little by little, you'll learn to accept anything.” ~Jennifer Chiaverini,
The Collapse of Parenting
“The child expects to look up to the parent, to be instructed by the parent… but if the parent instead serves the child, then that relationship falls out of its natural balance. You may not earn your child’s love at all” ~Leonard Sax