Allison A

“it should be me for valedictorian. I’ve worked extremely hard these last four years and…and…when is the last time the school has had a valedictorian who was not only a woman, but Black and Korean? I think I—”
― Danielle Parker, You Bet Your Heart

“And there’s nothing wrong with being a lizard either. Unless you were born to be a hawk.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many.”
― Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything

“Furthermore, because so many conversations surrounding mental health come at the topic from a white, male, suburban, middle-class, cisgender perspective,”
― Nora Shalaway Carpenter, Ab[solutely] Normal: Short Stories That Smash Mental Health Stereotypes