Anna

“Those girls are not the opposite of me. We are perpendicular. We may be on different paths, yes. But there’s a place where we touch, where we connect and are just the same.”
― Renée Watson, Piecing Me Together

“There is nothing exquisite about my life. It's mine, though, so I'm going to make something out of it.”
― Renée Watson, Piecing Me Together

“We do this because the world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.”
― Cisneros Sandra

“But girls like me, with coal skin and hula-hoop hips, whose mommas barely make enough money to keep food in the house, have to take opportunities every chance we get.”
― Renée Watson, Piecing Me Together