Becca Baucom

“You look all frail and breakable, but you're really a violent little thing, aren't you?”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“I never understood why other people thought my color, any color, needed fixing.”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

“We all wear masks. And the more we have to hide, the more accomplished the veneer.”
― Lisa Gardner, Never Tell

“Being able to return to the books was a sanctuary for my heart. And a joy bolted free, lessening my own grievances, forgiving spent youth and dying dreams lost to a hard life, the hard land, and to folks’ hard thoughts and partialities.”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek