Hazel

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

“Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none”
― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

“Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow, whereas intelligence is the substance.
-Doc”
― Bryce Courtenay