Lizeth Favela❀

“Mom . . . Dad . . . I need to tell you guys something.” For Hannah. For Charlie. For all the girls whose names I’ll never know. For me. Girl made of flesh and bone.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

“At first it is strange. I am used to keeping him from her, to hoarding him for myself. But the memories well up like springwater, faster than I can hold them back. They do not come as words, but like dreams, rising as scent from the rain-wet earth. This, I say. This and this. The way his hair looked in summer sun. His face when he ran. His eyes, solemn as an owl at lessons. This and this and this. So many moments of happiness, crowding forward.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“It's not the solution, Mr. Canton. It's the path to the solution that's fascinating.”
― Gary D. Schmidt, Orbiting Jupiter

“I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary