Kalynn

“a bookstore is a place densely populated with tens of thousands of authors, dead or living, residing side by side. But books are quiet. They remain dead silent until somebody flips open a page. Only then so they spill out their stories, calmly and thoroughly, just enough at a time for me to handle.”
― Won-pyung Sohn, Almond

“Perhaps ghosts didn’t haunt places. Perhaps ghosts haunted people.”
― Rebecca Crunden, Haze

“Don't you believe in nonviolence?' I asked.

"'Yes,' said Miss Minnie, 'when the other parties are nonviolent, too. But when I have just come out of a funeral parlor from looking at a little small black boy shot three times by a full-grown cop, I think it is about time I raised my pocketbook and strike at least one blow for freedom.”
― Langston Hughes, The Return of Simple

“That's the thing about loss—it takes everything you love in an instant, yet gives you a lifetime of sorrow.”
― Saim .A. Cheeda