Rainy Lanie

“The people will pinch and squeeze at the matter till it bursts like a pustule.”
― Lisa Rowe Fraustino, I Walk in Dread

“Hattie,” she said. “In order to move on we must forgive the past. Sometimes that means forgiving someone who hasn’t apologized and probably never will. We don’t have to forget what happened.”
― Kristiana Gregory, Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie

“Our lives are just spectacles. We are like dolls, in a sense, to be observed and played with—often with cruel and deceitful intentions—in an unreal world.”
― Kathryn Lasky, Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria-France, 1769

“All I know for sure is that I’m the only girl in seventh grade with naked lips.”
― Kirby Larson, The Fences Between Us: The Diary of Piper Davis, Seattle, Washington, 1941