Nicky Faustini

“You knew this would come. I cannot rot all my life underground, with nothing of my own.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“I am a human being," she would always say, "therefore nothing human is alien to me.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“If other children didn't move so much, it just went to show that our lives were fated to be different from everyone else's in the world.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“When they tried to smile to carry off their tiredness as if it was nothing, the body did nothing to help the mind's attempt at disguise.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings