Heather Esterak

“Once upon a time there was a girl who was special. This is not her story. Unless you count the part where I killed her.”
― R.J. Anderson

“Long time I been on my own, but now really I'm alone. I survive the killing, the starving, all the hate of the Khmer Rouge, but I think maybe now I will die of this, of broken heart.”
― Patricia McCormick, Never Fall Down

“There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“Back at the hut, all my sister, they start to cry. "No crying," my aunt says, very strict. "You cry only in your mind."

But later, when everyone else asleep, I hear my aunt, her tears, they fall like rain.”
― Patricia McCormick, Never Fall Down