Missy

“I shrug him off. 'Can't you just go away?"

There's a moment. It has a sound in it, as if something very small got broken.”
― Jenny Downham, Before I Die

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
― Alice Walker

“If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I could get him out and he'd look at me the way boys do in films, as if I'm beautiful.”
― Jenny Downham, Before I Die