Megan

“[...] We don't talk. None of us. Why don't we ever talk? Silence is a language of its own in this family. A curse of our own making. That's the inheritance my daughter got from me, and I am very sorry.”
― Zoraida Córdova, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

“It had taken him all his life to understand this, but even unlikable things have worth. It was how, after all, he'd learned to life with himself.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Other Birds

“You could be born into a family, but you still had to choose them.”
― Zoraida Córdova, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

“There are birds, and then there are other birds. Maybe they don’t sing. Maybe they don’t fly. Maybe they don’t fit in. I don’t know about you, but I’d much rather be an other bird rather than just the same old thing.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Other Birds