Leah Coffin

“We write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves.”
― Andrea Barrett

“I have never understood how people can blithely disregard the damage they do by following their hearts.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“She must be very secure in herself, I suppose, in them, for it not to bother her, to walk where another woman has walked before. She obviously doesn’t think of me as a threat. I think about Ted Hughes, moving Assia Wevill into the home he’d shared with Plath, of her wearing Sylvia’s clothes, brushing her hair with the same brush. I want to ring Anna up and remind her that Assia ended up with her head in the oven, just like Sylvia did.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois