Mckenzie Clark

“And I know the past isn’t a mirror image of the future, but it’s a reflection of what can be; and when your first love breaks your heart, the shards of that can still draw blood for a long, long time.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High: An Award-Winning YA Novel about a Teen Mom Finding Her Voice through Food, Family, and Passion

“She wished for Mr. Warren or Aunt Della or Uncle Syd to come and help them. Her mom knew how to do lots of things. She knew how to find blueberries and catch fish and shoot a gun, but Emaleen was worried that she didn’t know how to keep them safe.”
― Eowyn Ivey, Black Woods, Blue Sky

“And sometimes focusing on what you can control is the only way to lessen the pang in your chest when you think about the things you can’t.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High: An Award-Winning YA Novel about a Teen Mom Finding Her Voice through Food, Family, and Passion

“When you love someone, Michael, you fight for them in every way you know how.”
― Helen Hoang, The Kiss Quotient