Steph

“I would give you anything," Vanessa said, "if it wasn't going to cost us everything.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part of her life was made from the tree growing rankly in the yard. She was the bitter quarrels she had with her brother whom she loved dearly. She was Katie's secret, despairing weeping. She was the shame of her father staggering home drunk.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn