Donna Deida

“The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory”
― Alice Walker, By the Light of My Father's Smile

“Then Raya saw Rebecca West, the fourteen-year-old who only saved her own life by testifying against her mother, and then she saw her own face reflected in these girls – a swirl of chance, and life and sorrow.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“I put my hand on her knee. I just wish you'd say you love me.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.”
― Shirley Jackson