Samantha

“When someone tells you that you're emotional, thank them. Thank them for recognizing the part in you that recognizes God.”
― Key Ballah, Preparing My Daughter For Rain

“A terrible confession it was (he put his hat on again) but now, at the age of fifty-three, one scarcely needed people any more. Life itself, every moment of it, every drop of it, here, this instant, now, in the sun, in Regent's Park, was enough. Too much, indeed. A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, now that one had acquired the power, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning< which both were so much more solid than they used to be, so much less personal.”
― Virginia Woolf

“You were the inspiration for all of the earth, every rolling hill and rushing stream.”
― Key Ballah, Preparing My Daughter For Rain

“My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs.”
― Tara Westover, Educated