Melissa H

“They will not use my tears for their entertainment.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“In the words of author Stephen Chbosky: "Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.”
― Amanda Jones, That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

“To watch things fall into place for me might have caused resentment in other fathers. Not James Crowe. Success, he explained in an interview I discovered years later, given to his hometown paper on the eve of his own death by heart attack, was defined by something he learned from his own dad. Did you bring joy to your community? Did you put something back into the world?”
― Cameron Crowe, The Uncool

“loving someone shouldn’t mean giving them permission to hurt you over and over,”
― Kara Thomas, The Champions