Annisha Jeffries

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“Missouria took in Mr. Morris’s information and this system of demarcating lives. Maps and lines had defined her entire life. They were drawn throughout history, straightened, elongated, bent up and
down by people who met in town halls and state capitals and now in the federal government. She had spent too many years confined inside those lines, told where to go, when, and for how long. She had come here to change her life, to live as a professional, and to put down new roots.”
― Maria Smilios, The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis

“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey