Julie

“I've lived in a good climate, and it bores the hell out of me.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“Don’t ever ask directions of a Maine native,” I was told. “Why ever not?” “Somehow we think it is funny to misdirect people and we don’t smile when we do it, but we laugh inwardly. It is our nature.” I wonder if that is true. I could never test it, because through my own efforts I am lost most of the time without any help from anyone.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley: In Search of America

“Then the mother of the murdered boy rose, turned to you, and said, “You exist. You matter. You have value. You have every right to wear your hoodie, to play your music as loud as you want. You have every right to be you. And no one should deter you from being you. You have to be you. And you can never be afraid to be you.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“If I am marching to my death, then I will march to it as a girl. Without fear.”
― Renee Ahdieh, Flame in the Mist