Maya

“I want to catch words one day. I want to hold them then blow gently, watch them float right out of my hands.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming

“Reputation was all you had when you’d been born without the relationships.”
― Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps

“Are not there little chapters in everybody’s life, Beth had read in Vanity Fair only that morning, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of history?”
― Kate Quinn, The Rose Code

“What does it mean to be brave? This was a question Brother Edik asked himself as he walked through the dark woods with Jack Dory and Cannoc and Answelica.
To be brave is to not turn away.
To be brave is to go forward.
To be brave is to love.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Beatryce Prophecy