Stefanie

“Don’t let them put words in your mouth. God gave you a brain. You don’t need theirs.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“Why’d you have to go and say that?” Shotty asked. “Now I might look forward to seeing you.” At the time she just thought it was a clever comeback from a clever old man, but on her drive home, she heard the sadness in it, the sadness of a world where the people who cared for him were swapped out like baseball cards, the peril of attachment in a world of dependence, and the fatigue of anticipation, anywhere.”
― J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota

“It’s in the small moments that life is truly lived.”
― Marion Roach Smith, The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life

“At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give