Michelle

“The world just goes along. Nothing much matters, you know? I mean really matters. but then sometimes, just for a second, you get this grace, this belief that it does matter, a whole lot.”
― Lucia Berlin, A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
― LeVar Burton

“May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity— a virtuous woman. Anything, Devil, but that.”
― Mary MacLane, I Await the Devil's Coming