Tiffa Lockhart

“Who am I to deny my Master pleasure, simply because it is not at the hands of myself? He is free to do as he will, because of the life that he has given me. I am thankful for him, for the fact that out of all of us, I am the one that he chooses to keep and care for as his own.”
― Astrid Knowles, Switch

“Now that so many years have passed, now that I remember with the benefit of an understanding I didn't then have, I think of that conversation and it seems implausible that its importance didn't hit me in the face. (And I tell myself at the same time that we're terrible judges of the present moment, maybe because the present doesn't actually exist: all is memory, this sentence that I just wrote is already a memory, this word is a memory that you, reader, just read).”
― Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The Sound of Things Falling

“Hers is the face I wear, treading the riptide, fathomless oceans where good girls drown.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“Open my heart and you will see
Graved inside of it, "Italy".”
― Robert Browning, Selected Poems