Shani

“Listen,” you said.

“To what? There’s nothing.”

“There is. Maybe not shopping centers and cars, but other things … buzzing insects, racing ants, a slight wind making the tree creak, there’s a honeyeater up there, scuttling around, and the camels are coming.”
― Lucy Christopher, Stolen

“Try fighting with your head for a change . . it's a good one, even if it does resist learning"
-Atticus”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“The dust made Lily cough. She buried her face in the crook of her arm to muffle the noise. But behind all that wood, they probably could play the 1812 Overture with real cannons and nobody would hear them.”
― Ellie McDonald, Danger After Dark

“She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of, and what you do.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess