Allison

“But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside the room peeking through the cracks. It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“sometimes we take chances, sometimes we take pills.”
― Fall Out Boy