Mardian Sagian

“I just sit there. The morning started out like crystal, but the day has turned to broken glass.”
― Sharon M. Draper, Out of My Mind

“What would you do if you could fly?" Mrs. V asks as she glances from the bird to me.
"Is that on the quiz?" I ask, grinning as I type.
"I think we've studied just about everything else." Mrs. V chuckles.
"I'd be scared to let go," I type.
"Afraid you'd fall?" she asks.
"No. Afraid it would feel so good, I'd just fly away.”
― Sharon M. Draper, Out of My Mind

“What it would be like to be separated from all these things he did not know, he could not envision, but the more he dwelled on it the more he understood that it was not so much fear of being separated that he felt as sadness at the idea of parting.”
― Anuk Arudpragasam, The Story of a Brief Marriage

“A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.”
― Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter