Amelia

“And so I'm me again, Leo. Thanks to the example of a five-year-old. I'm hoping you wouldn't want it any other way. Not that you weren't flattered, right? I mean, to have a girl two thousand miles away going to pieces over you, weeping at the mere memory of you, losing her appetite, losing herself and self-respect - well, that's trophy enough for any guy's ego, huh?”
― Jerry Spinelli

“The door of the novel, like the door of the poem, also shuts. But not so fast, nor with such manic, unanswerable finality.”
― Sylvia Plath, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts

“Your silence will not protect you.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates