Untamed Lands and Wild Adventures

My liberation would not come from doing every task well, but seeing each task as attainable.  Realizing that the land, the storyline or plot, had no particular interest in how I worked it out.
... Young women needed untamed lands and wild adventures.

Temperance Creek
Pamela Royes

Heart Like a Bird

My heart rose like a bird at once.  It always did incurably, except in rain, as soon as I felt I had fallen off the map.

Travels With Myself and Another
Martha Gellhorn

Lives of Others

It was extraordinary, I mused, how wrong people invariably were about the lives of others.

The Land that Never Was
Alyse Simpson

Before Your Eyes Close Forever

Open your eyes ... and see what you can with them before they close forever.

All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr