Coreena

“Each day, I was building a life of my choosing, and it was a good life. I knew what was missing, but I was also appreciative of what was there.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

“You know, I'd get a tattoo with your name on it. Only, I want you to have the freedom to change your name if you want to.”
― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

“Strength, I had learned, was like this littered forest floor, built of small triumphs and infinite blunders, sunny hours followed by sudden storms that tore it all down. We are one and all alike if for no other reason than the excruciating and beautiful way we grow piece by unpredictable piece, falling, pushing from the debris, rising again, and hoping for the best.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

“Try as we might to convince ourselves otherwise, the moments of our becoming cannot be carefully plucked like the ripest and most satisfying peach from the bough. In the endless stumble toward ourselves, we harvest the crop we are given.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River