Laura Deen

“The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.”
― Chinua Achebe

“There is something in me maybe someday
to be written; now it is folded, and folded,
and folded, like a note in school.”
― Sharon Olds

“Sometimes I imagine we're all like paper stars, folded up and gathered together, each of us convinced that we are glittering and celestial, each of us bent into a shape so we believe we're something we're not.”
― Katherine Ewell, Dear Killer

“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars