Kia

“Yes it is, because you can only be brave if you're scared.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory

“i have given you the power to turn me inside out, my dear—please do not use it”
― Savannah Brown, Graffiti

“The salt in my tears feels good when it stings my lips. I wash my face in the sink until there is nothing left of it, no eyes, no mouth. A slick nothing.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe