Lauren

“How do you improve yourself without challenging your mind? How do you leave a better world for your children? Delvin wondered. Then he remembered that was the point. People like Lula didn’t want change. They were perfectly happy with the way things were.”
― Kirsten Miller, Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books

“Some people grow up knowing what they want to do. They color inside the lines, study at the right school, check off the boxes, and in the end? They are handed the grown-up life they've dreamed of. (That's mostly bullshit for the record.) Trying to figure out what you want to do, who you want to be is messy as hell. The best anyone can hope for is to figure out the next step.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Shout

“We're all born to fight, but few are ever trained. Instead, they tell us
"Be nice.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Shout

“She wrote in tiny letters that she was not outcasted for the exact same reason that Melinda got outcasted. But outcasting is hurtful, no matter who you are or what happened.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Shout