Anna DB

“If it is true for you, it is true for someone else, and you are no longer alone.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

“He smiled. “I guess somewhere in a corner of our hearts, we are always twenty.”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lilac Girls

“Books that hadn’t been cracked since they were shelved. Give money to a monkey and he’ll fill his cage with bananas. Give the same money to a dim American and he’ll build a show library every time.”
― Jess Walter, The Cold Millions

“After a certain age, we are all walking around this world in bodies made of secrets and shame and sorrow and old, unhealed injuries. Our hearts grow sore and misshapen around all this pain—yet somehow, still, we carry on.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls