Karla

“What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties.”
― Mary Karr, Lit

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us”
― Ann Patchett, Truth & Beauty

“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale