Rachel

“Some would say that because I fight depression I don’t have enough faith, because otherwise I would have been “totally healed” by now. Others would call me irresponsible for choosing to fight depression un-medicated; still others would call me faithless for the times when I did fight depression with pharmaceuticals. But one thing they can’t call me is dead.”
― Ashley Linne, Inseparable: Who I Am, Was, and Will Be in Christ

“Few things are more shameful than insolvency in a country where poverty is a moral failing.”
― Caite Dolan-Leach, Dead Letters

“Thirty minutes later, I’m left with a few wads of cash and a dildo but no more drugs.”
― Caite Dolan-Leach, Dead Letters

“In daylight, silence is louder and angrier than at any other time. There are no sweet measures of silence such as night's stars, or evening's sunset, or morning's growing light. There is only bright, hard silence and it sounds louder than drums.”
― Lynn Joseph, The Color of My Words: An Américas Award-Winning Novel About Family, Poetry, and Finding Voice for Children