Susan

“Until I became a librarian, I didn't know I was a rebel.”
― Alechia Dow, The Sound of Stars

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“All my life,” she said, “I have been told ‘go’ and ‘come.’ I am told how I will live, and I am told how I must die. I must be a man’s servant and a mare for his pleasure, or I must hide myself behind walls and surrender my flesh to a cold, silent god. I would walk into the jaws of hell itself, if it were a path of my own choosing. I would rather die tomorrow in the forest than live a hundred years of the life appointed me. Please. Please let me help you.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.”
― W.S. Merwin