Shelia

“You've had a tough crack at life, I'll give you that. But you don't got to let the bad thrown at you become the ugly you think you got to be.”
― Joy Jordan-Lake, Blue Hole Back Home

“Now all white Southern women keep as a weapon against uncouth world a certain smile that can be whipped out of storage and tacked up, in an instant, covering over a multitude of too-candid moments. My mother's face, whose upturned mouth never moved, registered confusion, then fear-then landed where I expected that steely doggedly cheerful resolve of a smile.”
― Joy Jordan-Lake, Blue Hole Back Home

“Bookbag, Pocketshoe.”
― Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me

“She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school.”
― Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me