Kristen Lemaster

“We tried to love the world. We cleaned after this world, scrubbed its hospital floors and ironed its shirts, sweated in its kitchens and spooned school lunches, cared for its sick and nursed its babies. But the world didn't want us, so we left and gave our love to Upper Room. Now we're afraid of this world. A boy snatched Hattie's purse one night and now none of us go out after dark. We hardly go anywhere at all, besides Upper Room. We've seen what this world has to offer. We're scared of what it wants.”
― Brit Bennett, The Mothers

“You gotta be a soft thing in love. Hard love don't last.”
― Brit Bennett, The Mothers

“What if I'm in charge of my own damn light switch?”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Survival is insufficient.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven