Lily

“If you use too much paint, you'll not only obscure your savvy completely, but most everything else in life will become dull and uninteresting for you too. You can't get rid of part of what makes you you and be happy...So a well-scumbled savvy gives you clarity and control...You have to let your own know-how, your own unique color, shine through as a something-special others can't quite put a finger on."

—Momma”
― Ingrid Law, Savvy

“I have never heard a more eloquent silence.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“And workers who needed to go to the bathroom weren't allowed to take a break. They were forced to pee right on the slaughterhouse floor, near meat that people would soon be eating.”
― Eric Schlosser, Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food

“I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.”
― Lorrie Moore, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?