Debbie

“It felt very good to have him walking beside her. Good like rest and quiet, like something you could live without but you needed anyway. That you had to learn how to miss, and then you'd never stop missing it.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Lila

“It's not that you don't understand, it's that you don't like it.”
― Min Jin Lee, Free Food for Millionaires

“I’m crazy. Poor and stupid. This is the reason why poor people stay poor, you know that? They spend all their money on pride.”
― Min Jin Lee, Free Food For Millionaires

“Silent, she thought that poverty was like a sickness you put to sleep inside you, and it didn't hurt too much as long as you didn't move. You grew used to it, you ended up not paying much attention to it as long as you stayed tucked away with it in the dark; but when you took the notion of going out with it in daylight, it became frightening to the sight, so ugly you could not expose it to the sun.”
― Gabrielle Roy, The Tin Flute