Angela

“One day I'll own my own house, but I won't forget who I am or where I came from. Passing bums will ask, Can I come in? I'll offer them the attic, ask them to stay, because I know how it is to be without a house.

Some days after dinner, guests and I will sit in front of a fire. Floorboards will squeak upstairs. The attic grumbling.
Rats? they'll ask.
Bums, I'll say, and I'll be happy.”
― Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street

“But I think it better, in times like these, for us to acknowledge that marriage is a choice, one made, every day, anew.”
― Stephanie Dray, My Dear Hamilton

“Everybody goes around missing all the best stuff because they don’t want anything bad to happen. But then when something bad wants to happen it just does. Anyway. No matter how careful you’re being.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Take Me with You

“Don’t care what anyone tells me. The future’s vinyl,’ he said ... Life has surface noise! Do you want to listen to furniture polish?”
― Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop