Amanda A꣑ৎ

“when your mother is your first heartbreak, no love will ever fill the void of feeling so unloved by her.”
― Rose Brik, My Father's Eyes, My Mother's Rage

“She was made up of all of these good and these bad things. She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out by believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination. I,”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“I vow.
You vow.
We vow.”
― Shantel Tessier, The Ritual