Haley Bashada McLaughlin

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
― Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great Gatsby

“Words were secret doorways and I held all the keys.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.
We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale