Brittany

“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.”-Frederick Douglass”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence

“Loneliness has a compass of its own.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Not all who wander are lost.
(Not all who are lost, wander)”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Yet in reality, she was only an abandoned child, a little girl surviving on her own in a swamp, hungry and cold, but we didn’t help her. Except for one of her only friends, Jumpin’, not one of our churches or community groups offered her food or clothes. Instead we labeled and rejected her because we thought she was different. But, ladies and gentlemen, did we exclude Miss Clark because she was different, or was she different because we excluded her?”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing