Deadra Shefte

“Try things out, be happy to make mistakes, but above all have a go.”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

“After everyone went home, she often took a walk in the long summer evenings imagining she was looking for a party or a rave, which she never found. She usually ended up wandering in and out of the few shops that stayed open. This was not the life she’d imagined.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“Man’s hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or a moaning dove.”
― Ralph Ellison

“Each day I learn more and more about myself, and the memories that began as ripples now wash over me in high-breaking waves . . .”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon