Shasta

“There is a picture of me in their heads, a picture of someone I don't know yet. She is not the chubby girl with the braces and bad perm. She is not the girl hiding in the bathroom at recess. She is someone new, a blank slate they have named beautiful. That is what I am now: beautiful, with this new body and face and hair and clothes. Beautiful, with this erasing of history.”
― Amy Reed, Beautiful

“Rather than turning the page, it's much easier to just throw the book away.”
― Anthony Liccione

“You raze the old to raise the new.”
― Justina Chen Headley, North of Beautiful