Alyssa P

“But when you can’t sleep at night, how can you dream?”
― Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

“He tailed off, but I already knew what he was talking about, the way feelings get bunched up under you're rib cage and tear out all spiky.”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Julia and the Shark

“I accept it, and warmth spreads up my fingertips and through my body. A small part of me perks up, smiles. And I'm not sure the smiles reaches my face, but maybe this is how healing starts - small bits of happiness waking up inside you, until maybe one day it spreads through your whole self" -Lily”
― Tae Keller, When You Trap a Tiger

“Sometimes, no matter how much you want people to stay, you have to let them go.”
― Tae Keller, When You Trap a Tiger