Ellie Johnson

“At first I wasn't understanding him, but now it is not too much a problem. Everybody in the whole world be speaking different. Big Madam, Ms. Tia, Kofi, Abu, even me, Adunni. We all be speaking different because we all are having different growing-up life, but we can all be understanding each other if we just take the time to listen well.”
― Abi Daré, The Girl with the Louding Voice

“Take the wildest thing about you and nurture it till it blossoms.”
― Nikita Gill, Wild Embers

“When I walk away from the library, I don’t close the door. I leave it open for the spirit in all the books to be following me.”
― Abi Daré, The Girl with the Louding Voice

“There was grief, and so there always would be. But the gray fog was gone. I felt distant and very clear, like a hawk born upon the highest aether.”
― Madeline Miller