Elizabeth

“I do know what she means. This type of knowing is an expensive toll to pay. I can't forget the knowledge just because the price is high. And yet, sometimes we have to tuck the reminders away today in order to grow power against them tomorrow.”
― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn

“You should never apologize for being who you are,” he murmurs. “Or make yourself small so that others feel big.”
― Ayana Gray, Beasts of Prey

“The rain is speaking quietly,

you can sleep now.

Near my bed, the rustle of newspaper wings.

There are no other angles.

I’ll wake up early and bribe the coming day

to be kind to us.”
― Yehuda Amichai, Selected Poems By Yehuda Amichai

“Though why is it, she wonders casually as she stacks the boxes in her van, that we expect our children to be the ones to halt deforestation and species extinction and to rescue our planet tomorrow, when we are the ones overseeing its destruction today. There’s a Chinese proverb Willow has always loved: The best time to plant a tree is always twenty years ago. And the second-best time is always now. And the same goes for saving the ecosystem.”
― Michael Christie, Greenwood