Isabella Grace

“But you’re mistaken about me. If you only knew how difficult it is to be calm and composed. If you only knew, it takes a fierce fight inside to remain peaceful on the outside.”
― Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

“She held up her hand as if she had been badly scalded and said that my attempt to mansplain in the context of my white, cisgender privilege was repugnant to her and that she frankly wasn’t sure that even an immediate apology would erase the trauma my words had caused but that if I wrote an essay asking for forgiveness for my tone-deafness to the LGBTQ community as well as people of color, minorities, and the non-able-bodied, that might be a start.”
― John Kenney, I See You've Called in Dead

“Stories matter, Alice. When you live long enough, they're all you have.”
― V.E. Schwab, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

“That, of course, was the thing about truth. Those who hid it always believed it was colored in shades of grey; those who revealed it always saw the black and white.”
― Thomas R. Weaver, Artificial Wisdom: A Novel