Savanna

“You broke up with her last night?”
He nods … “You’re the love of my life. I assumed I would get over you eventually, but seeing you yesterday?” He shakes his head. “I couldn’t go home to someone else and pretend to love her with everything I have.”
― Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words

“Berries, Kokum said, knew well their role as life-givers, and we had to honour and respect that. We did that by knowing our role as responsible harvesters, picking only what we needed and leaving the rest for our animal kin so they could feed themselves and their young. That was our pact, she said, and if we followed it, they'd never let us down.”
― Jesse Thistle, From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way

“Don’t spoil her with toys; spoil her with books.”
― Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words

“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief