Karen

“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“Some days later, I understood what he was trying to say, that getting grown means learning how to work that current: learning when to hold fast, when to drop anchor, when to let it sweep you up.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing

“Because survival is insufficient.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.”
― Lester Bangs