Hannah

“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

“To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.”
― Abraham Maslow

“She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid