Kaia

“Dear America,
I suppose we should introduce ourselves: We're South Louisiana...You probably already know that we talk funny and listen to strange music and eat things you'd probably hire an exterminator to get out of your yard.
We dance even if there's no radio. We drink at funerals. We talk too much and laugh too loud and live too large and, frankly,we're suspicious of others who don't.”
― Chris Rose, 1 Dead in Attic: Post-Katrina Stories

“Dear Diary,
My pen is finally touching your pages. It is time to tell our story. Our story began in China and now it continues in America. I want to write about our old life and I want to write about our life now. I will write it all down with hopes that somehow I can connect the two worlds I have lived in. Right now those worlds seem so far apart.”
― Diane René Christian, An-Ya and Her Diary

“If you don't like a book, you can close it. But you have no right to say I can't open it.”
― Coleen Murtagh Paratore, The Cupid Chronicles

“Sometimes your best company is you”
― Coleen Murtagh Paratore, A Pearl Among Princes