Sam Reads

“When has anyone ever told me
I had the right to stop it all
without my knuckles, or my anger,
with just some simple words.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

“Late into the night I write and the pages of my notebook swell from all the words I’ve pressed onto them.
It almost feels like the more I bruise the page the quicker something inside me heals.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

“The mind is a complicated thing," Mrs. Darling said, considering her words as she spoke. "Sometimes it acts on its own, and quite often it controls us against our will. And I think, sometimes... It takes us away, maybe not when we want it, but when we need it.”
― Aiden Thomas, Lost in the Never Woods

“I think people are more frightening than the dark,” he said. “A person can stand right in front of you and be dangerous without you even knowing it.”
― Aiden Thomas, Lost in the Never Woods