Haley Bashada McLaughlin

“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

“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
― Robert Frost

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

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