Elena

“Blind terror in a fight can easily pass for courage.”
― S.E. Hinton, Rumble Fish

“Mind what's left to you."
"You saying take it? Don't fight?"
Alice put down her iron, hard. "Fight what, who? Some mishandled child who saw her parents burn up? Who knew better than you or me or anybody just how small and quick this little bitty life is? Or maybe you want to stomp somebody with three kids and one pair of shoes. Somebody in a raggedy dress, the hem dragging in the mud. Somebody wanting arms just like you do and you want to go over there and hold her but her dress is muddy at the hem and the people standing around wouldn't understand how could anybody's eyes go so flat, how could they? Nobody's asking you to take it. I'm sayin make it, make it!”
― Toni Morrison, Jazz

“The children of suicides are hard to please and quick to believe no one loves them because they are not really here.”
― Toni Morrison, Jazz

“I made a list in my head of people I liked. I do that a lot. It makes me feel good to think of people I like--not so alone.”
― S.E. Hinton, Rumble Fish