Abby

“My mother taught me that when you feel powerless, you can always find at least one thing to do, however small it may be.”
― Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

“Anyone who thinks females are perfect, that girls are nicer, that every sadistic thing girls and women do is the fault of "the patriarchy," has either forgotten a lot or never been a nine-year old girl at school. The desire for power is a human constant, though the ways of demonstrating this desire change according to circumstances.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Don't cry or I'll cry," my dad says. He has not historically been a crier, but he is one now, because that's how life is. You don't yet know who you'll become.”
― Catherine Newman, Wreck

“There is so much randomness to youth. The person assigned to share your room becomes your friend, the girl you pass on your way out the door becomes your wife, and from these random encounters our entire lives are built,”
― Ann Patchett, Whistler